Meaning

(often derogatory) Overly or unpleasantly cute..

Definitions by Sense

1. (often derogatory) Overly or unpleasantly cute.
2. (often derogatory) A cutesy-poo person or thing.

Example Sentences

However, wandering the streets for a while, I saw nothing that looked like dwarf work, even in the tourist shops, just the usual cutesypoo wooden figures.

'Our Little House'? Isn't that a little cutesy-poo for a safe house, Alex?

Ms. O'Mara nods. "I played Tessie. The crybaby orphan." She slips into a cutesy-poo baby doll voice and says, "Oh my goodness!"'

He stood calmly, reducing the material existence of a French cigarette, and observed Jellybean and sisters with an expression of sarcastic amusement. "You pathetic little cutesy-poos," he seemed to say. "Do you actually suppose this exhibition of childish melodrama is advancing the cause of freedom?"

I even made it into a New York Times crossword puzzle, and people started saying, 'Erie Mills. Hot new item—isn't she the little cutesy-poo who sang in Candide? Let's get her!' But I want to convince people that I am capable of other roles too, that I'm a serious opera person.

"Well, I'm not the same little cutesy-poo that Margaret Bascuino was," Margi railed. Her chest stuck out and her behind wriggled.

Word Forms

• more cutesy-poo
• most cutesy-poo
• cutesypoo
• cutesy-poos

When Should You Use Cutesy-poo?

Use cutesy-poo when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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