Crossword clues for kewpie
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1909, American English, coined by their illustrator, Rose C. O'Neill (1874-1944), as an altered form of a diminutive of Cupid.
Wiktionary
n. A kewpie doll.
Wikipedia
Kewpie is a brand of dolls and figurines that were initially conceived as comic strip characters by artist and writer Rose O'Neill. The illustrated cartoons, appearing as baby cupid characters, began to gain popularity after the publication of O'Neill's comic strips in 1909, and O'Neill began to illustrate and sell paper doll versions of the Kewpies. The characters were first produced as bisque dolls in Waltershausen, Germany beginning in 1912, and became extremely popular in the early 20th century.
The Kewpie dolls were initially made out of bisque exclusively, but composition versions were introduced in the 1920s, and celluloid versions were manufactured in the following decades. In 1949, Effanbee created the first hard plastic versions of the dolls, and soft rubber and vinyl versions were produced by Cameo Co. and Jesco between the 1960s and 1990s.
The earlier bisque and composition versions of Kewpie dolls are widely sought-after by antique and doll collectors, who especially want those hand-signed by O'Neill. Kewpies should not be confused with the baby-like Billiken figures that debuted in 1908.
Kewpie is a brand of dolls and figurines.
Kewpie may also refer to:
As a nickname:
- Dick Barrett (baseball) (1906-1966), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Johnny Ertel (1897-1976), Hungarian-born American boxer
- Kewpie Morgan (1892-1956), American silent film actor
- Kewpie Pennington (1896-1953), American Major League Baseball pitcher (for one game)
- Kewpie Ross, silent film actor - see the Ton of Fun comedy team
Other uses:
- Kewpie Chasma, a chasm on Ariel, a moon of the planet Uranus - see List of geological features on Ariel
- Kewpie, a Japanese brand of mayonnaise
- Kewpie, a character in the 1935 Broadway play Paradise Lost and the film adaptation
- the sports teams of David H. Hickman High School, Columbia, Missouri, United States
Usage examples of "kewpie".
Some of them started to dance and some went in the booths and I put in a few more licks for good measure and quit just in time because Kewpie had the mouthpiece on his sax and was showing signs of joining in, dry reed and all.
My arms and hands ached from whaling away at the box and my head ached worse from hearing Kewpie sing and play consistently out of tune.
He kept sending out to the bar for drinks for Kewpie and me until I told him plenty.
Lester, Kewpie, and I, so I stopped in the same Rustic Bar for a drink on the way back to the hotel.
The telephone rang then and I picked it up, thinking it would be Kewpie calling from the lobby.
Lester and Kewpie came over, Lester to tell me he was going back to the hotel and his date, and Kewpie to say he had to see a man about a dog.
I got the house doctor up and had a bit neater job done on my sore ear, and he was just leaving when Kewpie came in.
It was possible that Kewpie might have been the one that did the shooting.
So the Gunki came running with a stretcher made out of a large mullein-leaf, and they put the Kewpie and his legs tenderly upon it.
Chapter VII Accepting an Invitation The next morning Sara took with her only the Kewpie and the Baby.
So the Kewpie was rewarded for being good, and the Baby was rewarded for being bad, and Sara slipped through the ivory doors with both of them tucked under one arm.
Fresh fish and apples, books, jewelry, kiwi fruit, kewpie dolls, old coins, and every conceivable thing to eat or use rapidly disappeared from view.
They lay against the pillows of the four-poster bed, cute as a pair of Kewpie dolls.
In her duty heels and tight skirt and sucking on a cinnamon lollipop, she often referred to herself as Suzi Sugargram, your glazed Kewpie tart.
Lula, oh, sweet Lula, the faded Kewpie doll her father had won for her at Kennywood Park right after her third birthday.