betty

¹

[ bet-ee ]

noun

, plural bet·ties.

1. brown betty.

Betty

²

[ bet-ee ]

noun

1. a female given name, form of Elizabeth.

Word History and Origins

Origin of betty¹

An Americanism dating back to 1915–20; by shortening

Example Sentences

In that capacity, she was said to appear on his arm more often than even her mother, Betty.

From Time

Physical is part of this shift, with characters ranging from the monstrous Sheila to the mutually supportive all-girl skate crew in HBO’s Betty replacing the two-dimensional girlboss ideal to create a fuller picture of female power.

From Time

The skater girls of Betty unite to hold space in a male-dominated scene.

From Time

Brack and his wife, Betty, raised two sons, Mark and Bob, who grew up exploring the family’s untamed forests.

From ProPublica

Then, when quarantine orders were handed down in mid-March, Betty worried about Peter’s safety.

From Washington Post

Tarantino wrote it there over several months in his hotel, as well as the “coffee shop” Betty Boop.

From The Daily Beast

He loves Betty Jane Greer because of her “great sense of the ridiculous.”

From The Daily Beast

Betty Friedan put the feelings of our mothers to words, publishing The Feminine Mystique.

From The Daily Beast

The tabloid battle between the sweet blonde and the brunette vixen played out like an issue of Betty and Veronica on crack.

From The Daily Beast

Refined, elegant, and to the manor born, Betty is everything that Don is not.

From The Daily Beast

But, oddly enough, as he walked back to the hotel it was just Betty Lardner who made him think again of the legend.

From Project Gutenberg

After tea Betty executed a quite deliberate manœuvre to avoid having him for a partner at tennis.

From Project Gutenberg

Early in February he was invited for a week's hunting to a house at which Betty Lardner was also a guest.

From Project Gutenberg

She's done got a pow'ful quick tempah, my Miss Betty has, same's all my Somerset family had, bein' fust quality folks lak dey was.

From Project Gutenberg

Four of the ten days had passed before Betty Lardner ran across him on the promenade.

From Project Gutenberg