patootie
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Possibly a variant of potato; compare uses like hot patootie (similar to hot potato) and sweet patootie (sweet potato).[1][2] However, the adjectives hot and sweet are often collocated with words for the buttocks (regardless of which such noun), which limits the strength of that comparison; meanwhile, it is also possible that the similarity to the words toot and tooter may not be coincidental.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pəˈtuːti/
- (General American) IPA(key): /pəˈtuti/, [-ɾi]
- Rhymes: -uːti
- Hyphenation: pa‧too‧tie
Noun[edit]
patootie (plural patooties) (chiefly US, slang)
- The buttocks.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:buttocks
- 2002, Pleasant Gehman, The Underground Guide to Los Angeles, Manic D Press, →ISBN:
- I've seen an adorable unsigned punk band perform here, taken in some wickedawesome (all one word, of course) spoken word, and danced my patootie off to electro and synthcore djs. Yay.
- (dated) An attractive woman; also, a girlfriend.
- 1920 April 10 – August 28, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, chapter 11, in The Little Warrior [Jill the Reckless], New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 8 October 1920, →OCLC, section 1, page 194:
- … He got on Forty-second Street, and he was kinda fresh from the start. At Sixty-sixth he came sasshaying[sic] right down the car and said ‘Hello, patootie!’ Well, I drew myself up …
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References[edit]
- ^ “patootie, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, July 2023; “patootie, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- ^ Jonathon Green (2024) “patootie n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
