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cutie

nounnouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈkjuːti//
  • United States//ˈkjuti//
  • United States/[-ɾi]/

A cute person or animal.

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 […]

    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”.

Etymology

Etymology tree English cute Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English -ie English cutie From cute + -ie.

noun

  1. 1

    A clementine: a small, waxy-peeled orange hybrid cultivar that is easy to peel by hand.

  2. 2

    Any small mandarin orange variety such as a tangerine or a satsuma.

Etymology

A brand name of a particular cultivar of orange.

Forms

plural
cuties
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).