patootie

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
11
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/pəˈtuːti/
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/pəˈtuːti/ · /pəˈtuti/ · [-ɾi]

Definition of patootie

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (US, slang)The buttocks.
    “I've seen an adorable unsigned punk band perform here, taken in some wickedawesome (all one word, of course) spoken word, and danced my patootie off to electro and synthcore djs. Yay.”
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noun

  1. (US, slang)The buttocks.
    “I've seen an adorable unsigned punk band perform here, taken in some wickedawesome (all one word, of course) spoken word, and danced my patootie off to electro and synthcore djs. Yay.”
  2. (US, dated, slang)An attractive woman; also, a girlfriend.
    “… He got on Forty-second Street, and he was kinda fresh from the start. At Sixty-sixth he came sasshaying^([sic]) right down the car and said ‘Hello, patootie!’ Well, I drew myself up …”

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Etymology

Possibly a variant of potato; compare uses like hot patootie (similar to hot potato) and sweet patootie (sweet potato). However, the adjectives hot and sweet are often collocated with words…

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Possibly a variant of potato; compare uses like hot patootie (similar to hot potato) and sweet patootie (sweet potato). However, the adjectives hot and sweet are often collocated with words for the buttocks (regardless of which such noun), which limits the strength of that comparison; meanwhile, it is also possible that the similarity to the words toot and tooter may not be coincidental.

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