I was wondering too what the “pie” in “sweetie-pie” meant. Same thing as far as “cutie-pie” goes. I have higher functioning Classic Autism and I’m 43 years old but emotionally and socially I am like a 4 1/2 to 5 year old. I am an assistant volunteer / co-host at Preschooler Storytime for 3-5 year olds at my local library and have been for 16 years, co-hosting with my children’s librarian friend who is now 62 years old. I was 28 and she was 46 when I began doing Storytime. Because I’ve had a lot of friends who have been preschoolers, toddlers, and younger children (and also when I was a child myself back in the 1980s), I have heard toddlers / preschoolers and kids called cutie-pie and sweetie-pie. I see that as an endearment also used by parents when they mention their children. I usually hear “sweetie-pie” or “cutie-pie” mentioned when referring to a child, it seems. Although some people do call some adults that too (perhaps also people who are developmentally disabled like myself or those who have Down Syndrome or something else). I had no idea where the pie came from. I thought maybe a pie is a round thing and I thought that it resembles a child’s round face, so I thought maybe it was something that meant “cutie face” or something. But I guess that’s not correct either. About mag-pie being short for Margaret, yeah, I remember that. I had a classmate in 10th grade (in high school in the early 1990s) in World History who was named Maggie. There was a guy in my class named Jonathan and I remember he kept calling her “Mag-got” over and over again till she got really annoyed and told my teacher to stop Jonathan from keeping saying that. LOL. @Bethany, I love the word sweetie pie too. It is a nice word, although I think cutie-pie sounds better. I like the word adorable better though, but adorable could refer to other things too – not just children – like small cars, or things like cute homes – or like children’s clothing (in the Deep South like Alabama and South Carolina, where longalls and jon jons for little boys are very adorable. I’m not from the South; I’m from the West Coast, but I’m well aware in the South that little boys are dressed differently and more adorable). Take care – Codi Preston D.
Semper Vaporo:
July 31st, 2020 at 7:59 pm
THANK YOU! I am updating a novel I wrote where one of the main characters is a pre-adolescent girl that has been rescued from a life of severe abuse. She only understand a bare minimum of English. She is in the care of an old man that has a deep loving care for her. He calls her “Sweetie Pie” and it scares her because she only knows that “sweet” is a taste and “pie” is something to eat. I was beside myself trying to give the old man a way to explain what he meant. The words just wouldn’t come to me and you have provided plenty of food for thought.
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Bethany:
June 6th, 2015 at 4:06 pm
I love the word sweetie pie
Codi Preston D.:
March 10th, 2020 at 8:40 pm
I was wondering too what the “pie” in “sweetie-pie” meant. Same thing as far as “cutie-pie” goes. I have higher functioning Classic Autism and I’m 43 years old but emotionally and socially I am like a 4 1/2 to 5 year old. I am an assistant volunteer / co-host at Preschooler Storytime for 3-5 year olds at my local library and have been for 16 years, co-hosting with my children’s librarian friend who is now 62 years old. I was 28 and she was 46 when I began doing Storytime. Because I’ve had a lot of friends who have been preschoolers, toddlers, and younger children (and also when I was a child myself back in the 1980s), I have heard toddlers / preschoolers and kids called cutie-pie and sweetie-pie. I see that as an endearment also used by parents when they mention their children. I usually hear “sweetie-pie” or “cutie-pie” mentioned when referring to a child, it seems. Although some people do call some adults that too (perhaps also people who are developmentally disabled like myself or those who have Down Syndrome or something else). I had no idea where the pie came from. I thought maybe a pie is a round thing and I thought that it resembles a child’s round face, so I thought maybe it was something that meant “cutie face” or something. But I guess that’s not correct either. About mag-pie being short for Margaret, yeah, I remember that. I had a classmate in 10th grade (in high school in the early 1990s) in World History who was named Maggie. There was a guy in my class named Jonathan and I remember he kept calling her “Mag-got” over and over again till she got really annoyed and told my teacher to stop Jonathan from keeping saying that. LOL. @Bethany, I love the word sweetie pie too. It is a nice word, although I think cutie-pie sounds better. I like the word adorable better though, but adorable could refer to other things too – not just children – like small cars, or things like cute homes – or like children’s clothing (in the Deep South like Alabama and South Carolina, where longalls and jon jons for little boys are very adorable. I’m not from the South; I’m from the West Coast, but I’m well aware in the South that little boys are dressed differently and more adorable). Take care – Codi Preston D.
Semper Vaporo:
July 31st, 2020 at 7:59 pm
THANK YOU! I am updating a novel I wrote where one of the main characters is a pre-adolescent girl that has been rescued from a life of severe abuse. She only understand a bare minimum of English. She is in the care of an old man that has a deep loving care for her. He calls her “Sweetie Pie” and it scares her because she only knows that “sweet” is a taste and “pie” is something to eat. I was beside myself trying to give the old man a way to explain what he meant. The words just wouldn’t come to me and you have provided plenty of food for thought.