cutie pie
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cutie pie (plural cutie pies)
- (chiefly US) A cute person, often female.
- Synonym: cutie patootie
- Her daughter is such a cutie pie!
- 1916 November 28, Dopey Dan, “Twixt Love and Safety”, in The Washington Herald[1], page 14:
- Not a chance, Cutie-Pie! I'm still in th' hands o' my Oculist!
- 1933, Dorothy Wayne [pseudonym; Noel Everingham Sainsbury], Dorothy Dixon and the Double Cousin[2]:
- “Huh! The story book says ‘little boys’ belong in that category. Come, Bill, out with it!”
“Well, then, cutie pie,—Uncle Michael is a secret service man.”
- (slang) A small hand-held radiation meter.
- 2014, Mary Alice Statkiewicz Sherer, Paula J. Visconti, E. Russell Ritenour, Workbook for Radiation Protection in Medical Radiography, page 23:
- Most hospitals stock cutie pies to monitor radiation contamination levels during an emergency.
Translations[edit]
a cute person
a small hand-held radiation meter