patootieとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /pəˈtuːti/
• (General American) IPA: /pəˈtuti/, [-ɾi]
• 韻: -uːti
• ハイフネーション: pa‧too‧tie

名詞

patootie (plural patooties) (chiefly US, slang)

1. (dated) An attractive woman; also, a girlfriend.
   • 1920 April 10 – August 28, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, chapter 11, in The Little Warrior [Jill the Reckless], New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 8 October 1920, →OCLC, section 1, page 194:

     … He got on Forty-second Street, and he was kinda fresh from the start. At Sixty-sixth he came sasshaying right down the car and said ‘Hello, patootie!’ Well, I drew myself up …

2. The buttocks.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:buttocks

   • 2002, Pleasant Gehman, The Underground Guide to Los Angeles, Manic D Press, →ISBN:

     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.

別の表記

• patoot

派生語

• cutie patootie
• pain in the patootie

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