pookie
an affectionate pet name
What it means
Pookie is a term of endearment for a partner, a friend, or occasionally a pet — the register of "babe" or "sweetheart", turned up and made slightly silly. Its current life is mostly ironic: people call their friends pookie in a knowingly over-sweet way, and a whole TikTok format grew out of couples where one calls the other pookie in public.
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Examples
- Good morning pookie, did you sleep okay?
- She calls her boyfriend pookie in front of everyone and he just accepts it.
- Thanks pookie, you're a lifesaver.
- Not you calling your cat pookie.
Where it comes from
An old American pet name — it appears in films and sitcoms well before the internet — that resurfaced on TikTok around 2023 through the "pookie" couple videos, where the exaggerated sweetness is the joke.
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