cutesy

adj
/ˈkjutsi/US

Etymology

From cute + -sy.

Definitions

  1. Overly, affectedly or unnecessarily cute

    Overly, affectedly or unnecessarily cute; too cute to be taken seriously.

    • The couple called each other cutesy pet names like "honeypot" and "smoochie-poochie" that disgusted everyone else.
    • If each subject attracts roughly the same amount of attention (and with a judgmental adjustment to drop the more cutesy papers), that's roughly 100 papers per topic.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cutesy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA