Cutie

//ˈkjuːti// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A cute person or animal.

    "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 […]"

  2. 2
    A clementine: a small, waxy-peeled orange hybrid cultivar that is easy to peel by hand.
  3. 3
    Any small mandarin orange variety such as a tangerine or a satsuma. broadly

Synonyms

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babebabybeautiful womanbroadbullycenterfold

Example

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"Who's the cutie in the blue shirt?"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From cute + -ie.

Etymology 2

A brand name of a particular cultivar of orange.

Related phrases

cutie patootiecutie pienudie-cutie

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