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hottie

nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈhɒti//
  • United Kingdom//ˈhɔtɪj//
  • //ˈhɔti//
  • /[ˈhɔɾi]/
  • //ˈhɑti//

A physically or sexually attractive person.

noun

  1. 1

    archaicSynonym of hotshot.

  2. 2

    slangA physically or sexually attractive person.

    You guys are pathetic. I'm gonna find myself a little hottie.

    Junior public servants in the Department of Infrastructure and Transport’s graduate program allegedly compiled a “hotties list” which rated female colleagues’ attractiveness.

  3. 3

    informalA hot water bottle.

Etymology

From hot + -ie. Sense “stolen vehicle” perhaps from hot-wired.

Forms

plural
hotties
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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).