kitty
Synonym of jack (“a small, typically white, ball used as the target ball in bowls”).
Noun
- Synonym of jack (“a small, typically white, ball used as the target ball in bowls”).
Synonyms: jack
- A pool of money to which card players contribute a portion of their winnings, which is used for paying shared expenses such as the cost of the premises or refreshments; (by extension) any pool of money to which people contribute for shared expenses or other joint purposes; also, any fund of liquid assets set aside for future use.
- Your business is busted up, your thousand dollars is gone into the kitty of this corrupt country on that last bluff you made, […] - 1909 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Fourth in Salvador”, in...
- They told me you always had to come back to the band with your hand open so they could see what tip you got and you put that in the kitty. - 1995 September 8 (date interviewed), Peter Vacher, quoting Betty Hall Jones,...
- Synonym of pot (“a quantity of money available to be won in a round or a game”).
- Synonym of widow (“an additional hand of playing cards dealt face-down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder”).
Synonyms: widow
Origin
Origin uncertain; etymology 2 sense 2 (relating to card games) is possibly from kit (“collection of items”) + -y (diminutive suffix).
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Noun informal
- A young cat; a kitten.
- He said there was a beast with fangs in the alley, but it turned out to be a cute little kitty.
- A pretty young Kitty, / She had that could Purr; / 'Tvvas gameſome and handſome, / And had a rare Furr; […] - a. 1708 (date written), [Henry Playford], “Puss in a Corner: A New Song, to a Pretty New Tune Made by a Man...
- Grandma-cats don't very often care for their grand-kittens. But I know two little Maltese kittens that have the nicest grandma that ever any little kittens had. […] The kitties are named "Bill" and "May." They are good...
- An adult cat; also (often childish), sometimes in the form Kitty: a pet name for a cat of any age.
- Here, kitty kitty! Nice kitty!
Synonyms: puss pussy baudrons cat domestic cat grimalkin housecat kibty kitten kitter kitty kitty-cat kitty witty malkin mog moggy mouser pussy-cat
- Synonym of pussy (“vulva and/or vagina”).
- Looking at Lynn's naked body one last time, Mia decided to try something else. She waited for Lynn to bend down to grab her underwear and then came up behind her and began licking her kitty with long, wet strokes. -...
- The way Tariq was licking her kitty had her clutching the sheets. - 2017, CoCo Amoure [pseudonym], Falling For A Young Boss (Promise Me Forever; 2), [Atlanta, Ga.]: Sullivan Group Publishing, →ISBN:
- Evan's tongue was magic. She'd heard most men didn't have the skills to make a girl lose her mind by licking her kitty. But Evan … - 2019 November 18, Shanté Funches, “Mya and Evan”, in Web of Desire, [Bloomington,...
Synonyms: pussy
Origin
From kitt(en) + -y (diminutive suffix). Compare Dutch katje (“kitty”). Etymology 1 sense 2 (“vulva and/or vagina”) is probably modelled after the use of pussy to refer to the body part, from the appearance of an unshaven vulva.
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dust kitty kitteh kitty bar the door kitty-cat kitty cat kitty-cornered kitty-corner kitty corner kitty crack kitty cruise kitty door kitty flip kitty flipping kitty kiss kitty litter kitty's titties kitty wants a corner kitty witty pet the kitty titty tough titty said the kitty
Noun Northern England, slang
- A jail, a prison; also, a lockup.
- Besides we had a nice tollbooth, / To pull'd down was a pity, / And in its stead we've got—forsooth— / A vile pernicious kitty. / […] / Like convicts in a condemn'd cell, / They're fed on bread and water; / 'Midst...
Origin
Origin uncertain, possibly a clipping of kid(cote) (“lockup, prison”) (UK, dialectal, obsolete) + -y (diminutive suffix).
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Noun UK, dialectal
- In full kitty-wren: synonym of wren (“any bird of the family Troglodytidae; specifically the Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)”).
- [T]he male wrens (Troglodytes) of North America, build "cock-nests," to roost in, like the males of our distinct Kitty-wrens,—a habit wholly unlike that of any other known bird. - [1859 November 24, Charles Darwin,...
Origin
From Kitty (“diminutive of the female given name Katherine”).
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Noun UK, archaic
- Synonym of kittiwake (“either of two small gulls in the genus Rissa of the family Laridae; specifically (Ireland, UK), the black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)”).
- In the parish of Gaurie three curiosities upon the coast are exhibited to travellers: 1st, A perpendicular rock, of very great extent, full of shelves, and possessed by thousands of birds called kittywakes. […] Some...
Synonyms: kittiwake
Origin
Clipping of kitt(iwake) + -y (diminutive suffix).