cutie

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkjuːti/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkjuti/, [-ɾi]
• Rhymes: -uːti
• Hyphenation: cut‧ie

Etymology 1

From cute +‎ -ie.

Noun

cutie (plural cuties)

1. A cute person or animal.
   • 2009, Sara Roahen, Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table, page 239:

     Before every visit, I'm convinced that the tourists will have used all the napkins, the pigeons will have roosted beneath the chairs, the sidewalk musicians will be playing classic rock, the servers will all be high school cuties […]

Usage notes

• Often used as a term of endearment.

Derived terms

• cutie pie
• cutie patootie
• nudie-cutie

Translations

cute person or animal

• Catalan: maco (ca) m, maca (ca) f
• Dutch: schatje (nl) n, schattigaard m
• Esperanto: beletulo
• Finnish: söpöläinen (fi), söpöliini (fi)
• French: mignon (fr) m
• German: Süßer m, Süße (de) f, Schatz (de) m
• Italian: tesorino m or f
• Polish: słodziak m
• Portuguese: gracinha f
• Romanian: drăguț (ro) m, drăguță (ro) f
• Russian: пу́псик (ru) m (púpsik), мила́шка (ru) f (miláška) (to a girl), прелесть (ru) f (prelestʹ)
• Spanish: guapo (es) m, guapa (es) f, cariño (es) m, tesoro (es) m
• Swedish: sötis (sv) c, sötnos (sv) c
• Turkish: şirin (tr), şipşirin (tr), yumurcak (tr) (baby)
• Ukrainian: гарню́ня f (harnjúnja)

Etymology 2

A brand name of a particular cultivar of orange.

Noun

cutie (plural cuties)

1. A clementine: a small, waxy-peeled orange hybrid cultivar that is easy to peel by hand.
2. (by extension) Any small mandarin orange variety such as a tangerine or a satsuma.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قوطی (kutu, kutı), from Greek κουτί (koutí).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuˈti.e/

• Audio:

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Noun

cutie f (plural cutii)

1. box (rectangular container)

Declension

Declension of cutie

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) cutie	cutia	(niște) cutii	cutiile
genitive/dative	(unei) cutii	cutiei	(unor) cutii	cutiilor
vocative	cutie, cutio		cutiilor