cutesy-wootsy
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /ˈkjutsiˈwutsi/
cutesy-wootsy (not comparable)
- (pejorative) Cute in an affected or excessive way.
- 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint, New York: Vintage, 1994, “The Most Prevalent Form of Degradation in Erotic Life,” p. 233,
- Why didn’t I marry the girl? Well, there was her cutesy-wootsy boarding school argot, for one. Couldn’t bear it. “Barf” for vomit, “ticked off” for angry, “a howl” for funny, “crackers” for crazy, “teeny” for tiny.
- 1995, Corinne Holt Sawyer, Ho-Ho Homicide, New York: D. I. Fine, Chapter 8, p. 79,
- […] our pink ladies seem to think we’d like nothing but cutesy-wootsy cards with soppy messages and pictures of kittens and babies in rompers […]
- 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint, New York: Vintage, 1994, “The Most Prevalent Form of Degradation in Erotic Life,” p. 233,
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