cutie

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

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

From cute +‎ -ie.

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 […]

   • 2024 May 7, Cait Kelly, “Melbourne private school students expelled over ‘cruel’ spreadsheet rating female classmates”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Four students from Yarra Valley grammar in Ringwood, in Melbourne’s east, were suspended last week after it came to light they had made the list. It included photos of female students ranking them as “wifeys”, “cuties”, “mid”, “object”, “get out” and “unrapable”.

• Often used as a term of endearment.

A brand name of a particular cultivar of orange.

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.

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

• IPA^(key): /kuˈti.e/

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cutie f (plural cutii)

1. box (rectangular container)