cutesy-wootsy
US/ˌkjutsiˈwutsi/
cutesy-wootsy adjective: cute in an affected or excessive way.
Adjective
cutesy-wootsy (comparative more cutesy-wootsy, superlative most cutesy-wootsy)
- Cute in an affected or excessive way.
- 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.1969, Philip Roth, “The Most Prevalent Form of Degradation in Erotic Life”, in Portnoy’s Complaint, New York: Vintage, published 1994, page 233
- […] 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 […]1995, Corinne Holt Sawyer, chapter 8, in Ho-Ho Homicide, New York: D. I. Fine, page 79
Forms of cutesy-wootsy
| comparative | more cutesy-wootsy |
|---|---|
| superlative | most cutesy-wootsy |
Origin of cutesy-wootsy
Reduplication from cutesy; compare fuzzy-wuzzy, palsy-walsy.
Questions about cutesy-wootsy
- What does cutesy-wootsy mean?
- Cutesy-wootsy means cute in an affected or excessive way.
- What part of speech is cutesy-wootsy?
- Cutesy-wootsy is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce cutesy-wootsy?
- Cutesy-wootsy is pronounced /ˌkjutsiˈwutsi/ (US).
Words near cutesy-wootsy in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cutesy-wootsy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “cutesy-wootsy.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cutesy-wootsy. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.