cutie
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cuties
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Informal. a charmingly attractive or cute person, especially a girl or a young woman (often used as a form of address).
Hi, cutie.
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Slang.
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a person who tries to outsmart an opponent, as an athlete who outmaneuvers an opposing player.
The tackle was a real cutie when blocking on trap plays.
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a clever or cunning maneuver.
He pulled a cutie.
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Usage
What does cutie mean? Cutie is an informal word for a person considered cute or attractive. It can be used to refer to such a person, as in There are a couple of real cuties in my math class, or to address such a person, as in Hey, cutie, I missed you!This sense of the word can be considered demeaning toward the person it’s referring to or addressing. But that’s not always the case, especially when it’s directed toward a person by someone they love as a term of affection. Cutie can also be used as a term of endearment and affection that’s especially used to refer to or to address young children, much like sweetheart, sweetie, or darling. Cutie can also be spelled as cutey, but this is much less common. Example: Your nephew is such a cutie—look at that sweet face!
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As Ella Emhoff, one of Harris’ stepchildren, puts it, “How can you be ‘childless’ when you have cutie pie kids like cole and I.” But for Vance, real parents are biological parents.
From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2024
Peep Ludacris as a cutie child on page 288.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 20, 2023
Similarly, in VanderMeer’s 2017 novel “Borne,” the titular character is a green lump, both a terrifying nightmare weapon and a cutie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2023
Cyrano, a soldier ashamed of his large, misshapen nose, is in love with Roxanne, who is smitten with a callow cutie named Christian.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2022
We should not make it a personal thing, 12TH JUROR: Um, if no one else has an idea, I may have a cutie here.
From "Twelve Angry Men" by Reginald Rose
The mom may move them to a better location, and she grooms the little cuties, just as she groomed them when they were mere babes-in-eggs.
From Salon ● May 11, 2025
The Maine Sales Company offers three diameters of buckwheat-filled cuties in various solid colors, as well as fun prints of cats, dogs, butterflies or lobsters.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2022
The Maine Sales Company offers three diameters of buckwheat-filled cuties in various solid colors, starting at $19.99, but have some fun and go for a print: cats, dogs, butterflies or lobsters.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2021
Country cuties Cassadee Pope and Dustin Lynch square off on a new “Lip Sync Battle.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2016
So while cats and the amazing fennec foxes and more distantly related mammals like marsupials kept their ability to orient their ears—think of big-eared cuties like koalas, lemurs, bush-babies—apes and humans lost the skill.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2015
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