= arty-crafty, adj.

Originally: ‘sweet’, dainty, chic. Now only in depreciatory use: affectedly dainty or quaint; over-nice, over-refined, precious, mawkish.

(a) n. a cute person, a cutie (cf. sweetie-pie n. at sweetie, n. compounds); (b) adj. = cutesy, adj.

Small, (charmingly) insubstantial, tiny; also, used disparagingly: arty-crafty, twee. Cf. itty-bitty, adj.

Affectedly cute and clever, twee. Also with fanciful extension, ˈcutesy-poo adj.