by ANNA BRUTOCAO
and SIENNA CHAN
Over the past year, the term pookie has risen in popularity, and has been used in a plethora of ways.
For example, to describe her outfit during the 2024 Screen Actors Guild Awards, Reese Witherspoon recently commented, “It’s giving: Pookie looks fire.’”
Jett and Campbell Puckett, a social media couple, have popularized the term through Jett’s compliments toward his wife, calling her “snow bunny pookie” and “the pookinator.”
In our community, we have seen pookie as an affectionate name to call a friend or a pet name to call a significant other. We hope to open your minds and help you understand that, in actuality, pookie transcends the limits of a simple nickname.
Pookie is not only a name, but a lifestyle, a feeling and an adjective.
In order to best verse our readers in the multifaceted universe of pookie, we will provide some examples of phrases including the term, as well as what people, places and things we consider to be pookie.
“I like this little pookie life.” “My pigtails are making me feel kind of pookie.” “Did you see his outfit today? It’s so pookie.” Pookie has neither a positive nor negative connotation. It’s as ambiguous as calling the sky blue.
One of the best ways to learn is by example, so we will now walk you through people, places and things that are pookie and some that are not.
The most pookie fruit is a blueberry, while the least pookie fruit is a pineapple.
The kind of pencil sharpener that you plug into the wall and crank is pookie, while a normal hand-held sharpener is not.
Will Ferrell is pookie, while Adam Sandler is not.
Instagram reels are pookie, while TikTok is not.
While we recognize the use of pookie beyond just a name, we still respect pookie as a nickname and use it ourselves. We even modify the word into new names such as “shnookie,” “dookie,” “pookster” and “pookie bear.”
We use pookie as a way to truly reach each other. “Like when Sienna Chan calls me pookie when reaching out to me in desperate need of comfort,” says senior Anna Brutocao.
Adds Chan, also a senior: “For me, when Anna Brutocao calls me snookie, I feel as if the entirety of my being was being carried away to happiness on a bed of sunshine and rainbows.”
In short, regardless of how either of us feels, hearing each other call us pookie makes us want to scream “UWU” from the tops of our lungs.
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