cutesyadj.
/ˈkjuːtsi/ colloquial (originally and chiefly North American).
Affectedly cute and clever, twee. Also with fanciful extension, ˈcutesy-poo adj.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [adjective] > affectedly cute and clever
cutie-pie1940
cutesy1968
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of simplicity > [adjective] > twee
artsy-craftsy1902
twee1905
cutie-pie1940
itsy-bitsy1958
cutesy1968
1968 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 25 Feb. 10 Start with the cutesie title. Pursue the mysteriously jumbled chronology.
1968 Time 7 June 4 The music that interrupts the cutesy dialogue is standard Mozart.
1973 New York 22 Oct. 104 I feel like a rotten old cynic saying anything narsty about so cutesy-poo an endeavor as The Optimists.
1976 New Musical Express 31 July 9/1 It works because it never gets cutesy. I'm proud of the music.
1976 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 4 June 9/2 ‘It would look like a comic strip,’ said Jamie, ‘too cutesy.’
1979 R. Jaffe Class Reunion (1980) i. viii. 117 She had curly hair and a turned-up nose and looked so cutesy-poo that Chris wanted to smack her.
1987 Washington Post 19 Apr. e9/3 My ol' Daddy..warned me never to eat at a place called Mom's..and to stay away from restaurants with cutesy names like ‘Ugly Mug’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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