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cutesy, a. colloq. (orig. and chiefly N. Amer.).|ˈkjuːtsɪ|
Also cutesie.
[f. cute a. + -sy.]
Affectedly cute and clever, twee. Also with fanciful extension, ˈcutesy-poo.
1968N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 25 Feb. 10 Start with the cutesie title. Pursue the mysteriously jumbled chronology. 1968Time 7 June 4 The music that interrupts the cutesy dialogue is standard Mozart. 1973New York 22 Oct. 104, I feel like a rotten old cynic saying anything narsty about so cutesy-poo an endeavor as The Optimists. 1976New Musical Express 31 July 9/1 It works because it never gets cutesy. I'm proud of the music. 1976Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 4 June 9/2 ‘It would look like a comic strip,’ said Jamie, ‘too cutesy.’ 1979R. Jaffe Class Reunion (1980) i. viii. 117 She had curly hair and a turned-up nose and looked so cutesy-poo that Chris wanted to smack her. 1987Washington Post 19 Apr. e9/3 My ol' Daddy..warned me never to eat at a place called Mom's..and to stay away from restaurants with cutesy names like ‘Ugly Mug’. |