cutie

noun

cut·​ie ˈkyü-tē How to pronounce cutie (audio)
variants or cutey
plural cuties or cuteys
: an attractive person
especially : a pretty girl

Examples of cutie in a Sentence

Her boyfriend's a real cutie. in her days as a chorus girl she was a real cutie
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Simone Biles and Jonathan Owens attending on their second wedding anniversary Lexie Moreland/Getty Images The cuties actually got married on May 6 and attended on the even of their second wedding anniversary. Charley Ross, Glamour, 6 May 2025 Listen to Booster and Yang talk about the difficulty of working alongside their cutie costars in the podcast episode above. EW.com, 2 May 2025 He’s repeatedly described as the worst of humanity yet consistently treated like a cartoon cutie pie. Ben Travers, IndieWire, 24 Apr. 2025 Gerbera daisy The decorative plant isn’t just a flowering cutie but a powerful eliminator of contaminants. Rebecca Torres, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cutie

Word History

Etymology

cute + -ie

First Known Use

1908, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of cutie was in 1908

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“Cutie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cutie. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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