| 释义 |
patootie U.S. slang.|pəˈtuːtɪ|
[Perh. a corruption of potato (see quot. 1921).]
A sweetheart, girl-friend; a pretty girl.
1921Dialect Notes V. 110 Patootie,..Sweetheart. Reported from four different localities [in California]. Etymology unknown. Suggested, by sweetheart and sweet potato. 1923G. McKnight Eng. Words iv. 61 In the vocabulary of modern youth, chivalry is dead... A girl..if she is popular..is a darb, a peach,..a sweet patootie. 1935Nation (N.Y.) 15 May 562/2 He calls the object of his affection a ‘hot patootie’. 1948Lait & Mortimer New York: Confidential! i. vi. 61 New Yorkers..tell their patooties how pretty they are. 1950Times-Herald (Washington) 27 Jan. i. 14/3 A batch of pretty-panned patooties. 1958P. De Vries Mackerel Plaza 149 You like to shake a leg with a hot patootie now and then, do you? 1977New Yorker 26 Sept. 32/1 She was, successively,..the wife and/or sweet patootie of the quartet. |