Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Informal Deliberately or affectedly cute; precious: a cutesy boutique for children's fashions.
Wiktionary
- adj. Overly, affectedly or unnecessarily cute; too cute to be taken as serious.
Etymologies
- Diminutive of cute. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“My guess is that it started online (or close to it, like in cutesy IM language), similar to other grammatical borrowings (的说 being another prominent example).”
“And did you know, the word 'twee' in English, which means overly-cutesy, is the Dutch word for 'two'?”
“Alas, she tells it in cutesy, sophomoric prose, such as: “So Gram pinned her hopes on moi … Come awwwwwn … yadda, yadda.””
“And I find the 'turn' is not cute, but cutesy - in other words, trite.”
“I have, however, already forgotten what that slightly rubbery shrimp roll I ate in the picture above was called; but you can bet it was something cutesy, which is probably why I took it.”
“Whit goes on to say, "I've always been classified as the cutesy, girl next door type, so doing this shoot will give me the opportunity to step outside my comfort zone and show people an entirely different side of me.”
“Her "cutesy" manner and country-bumpkin expressions are a reflection of her thought process and her inability to communicate as an educated adult.”
“Maybe it's based upon what will sell to a Western audience but it seems to me that even a serious story done with animation has to have somewhat of a "cutesy" look or have the appearance of the illustrations from a children's book.”
“I tried other diary software but they either weren't portable, were too "cutesy" by half, were not at all customizable, or were too feature-thin for the price. kaetheb”
“Granted, I still believe that some of the "cutesy" calibers are limited use.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cutesy’.
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Bike Snob'isms
words I saw while reading the Bike Snob
helment, scranus, podium, sangue borse, hipster, dandydom, effete, douchebag, douchebags, Lobweh, Portland, brakeless track bike and 323 more...
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
taramea, tawings, tchicks, timider, tirades, tirings, towings, trailed, trailer, trained, trainee, trainer and 2373 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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/captrap\
ebullience, prestigious, razzle, derelict, decrepit, adieu, ennui, oblique, allegretto, shatter, fantastical, chandelier and 67 more...
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Generally Agreeable Words
cutesy, cloying, moue, prussian blue, niche, gravitas, fracas, lackadaisical, nisse, panzer, gossamer, torero and 4 more...
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british colloquialisms
slang dict
alright!, arty-farty, beer o'clock, big time, bin, bits and bobs, blighty, blimey, bob's your uncle, bolivian marching..., bolshie, catch you later! and 49 more...
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