hottie

See also: Hottie

English

Etymology

From hot +‎ -ie. Sense “stolen vehicle” perhaps from hot-wired.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɒ.ti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔ.ti/, /ˈhɑ.ti/, [ˈhɔ.ɾi], [ˈhɑ.ɾi]

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Homophone: haughty (cot–caught merger)
• Rhymes: -ɒti

Noun

hottie (plural hotties)

1. (slang, Australia, New Zealand, now rare) Synonym of hotshot.
2. (slang, originally Australia) A physically or sexually attractive person.

   Synonym: fittie

   • 1999, Adam Herz, directed by Paul Weitz, American Pie, spoken by Steve Stifler (Seann William Scott):

     You guys are pathetic. I'm gonna find myself a little hottie.

   • 2023 October 23, Elias Visontay, “Junior public servants allegedly made ‘hotties list’ that ranked female colleagues, Senate hears”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Junior public servants in the Department of Infrastructure and Transport’s graduate program allegedly compiled a “hotties list” which rated female colleagues’ attractiveness.

3. (informal, originally Australia, New Zealand) A hot water bottle.
4. (informal, originally Australia, New Zealand) A stolen vehicle.

   Synonyms: stovec, stolen, steamer, dinger, ringer

   Don’t leave your hottie in front of my house eah.

   (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

   • 2024 February 25, David Estcourt, Chris Vedelago, “Hotties, the must-have accessory for Melbourne’s criminals”, in The Age‎^[2]:

     Elliott and the driver, Alan Fares, both convicted of murder in 2022, used hotties before Elliott fired four shots from a black stolen SUV Porsche.

Translations

slang: sexually attractive person

• Dutch: stuk (nl) n, knapperd (nl) m
• Finnish: kuuma pakkaus, kuumis (fi), hottis (fi)
• French: bombe (fr) f
• German: heißer Feger m
• Hebrew: חתיך (he) m (ḥatikh), חתיכה (he) f (ḥatikha)
• Italian: gnocca (it) f
• Korean: 퀸카 (kwinka)
• Macedonian: риба f (riba), пичка f (pička) (vulgar, of females)
• Persian: داف (fa) (dâf) (of women)
• Polish: ciacho (pl) n (male)
• Portuguese: gostoso (pt) m, gostosa (pt) f, pedaço (pt) m (colloquial)
• Russian: краса́вчик (ru) m (krasávčik) (male), краса́вец (ru) m (krasávec) (male), красо́тка (ru) f (krasótka) (female), краса́вица (ru) f (krasávica) (female), пре́лесть (ru) f (prélestʹ) (any gender), мила́шка (ru) f (miláška) (female), ду́шечка (ru) f (dúšečka) (female)
• Spanish: bombón (es) m or f, bellezón m or f, pibón (es) m or f
• Swedish: snygging (sv) c, goding (sv) c, läckerbit (sv) c

informal: hot-water bottle — see hot water bottle

Further reading

• “hotty, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022.
• “hottie n.²”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present