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Kew⋅pie

  [kyoo-pee]
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Trademark.
a brand name for a small, very plump doll with a topknot, usually made of plaster or celluloid.
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kew·pie   (kyōō'pē)   
n.  A small, fat-cheeked, wide-eyed doll with a curl of hair on top of the head.

[Originally a trademark.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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kewpie 
1909, Amer.Eng., coined by their illustrator, Rose C. O'Neill (1874-1944), as an altered form of Cupid.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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