betty
noun
betty
1 American
[bet-ee]
/ ˈbɛt i /
noun
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betties
plural
Betty
2
American
[bet-ee]
/ ˈbɛt i /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of betty
An Americanism dating back to 1915–20; by shortening
Example Sentences
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I love all things cobbler, crumble, crisp and betty.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2022
Sweet pie or homemade pudding, such as apple betty, bread pudding, rice pudding, custard; cookies or homemade cakes or gingerbread, canned fruit; canned babas au rhum, etc.
From Time Magazine Archive
For dessert, there’s a rhubarb-apple betty topped with cinnamon creme anglaise.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
Sometimes by the light of a betty lamp in the early winter evenings the journeymen would be still at work, drawing the waxed thread carefully and quickly through the leather.
From In the Days of the Guild by Louise Lamprey
“I–I used to wish I was all boy until I became a Camp Fire Girl; that bettered the betty element a little,” she confided, the spice of her mixed cognomen floating in her eye.
From Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl by Isabel Katherine Hornibrook
“Not to share a lady’s age, but Betty Boop’s 96 and we’re still talking about her,” Buermann says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Betty, 93, takes to the skies for fifth wingwalk.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Sports broadcaster Betty Glover, who has been covering the World Cup across the US for the last month, worked at last year's Club World Cup final in the same stadium.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
"The ball is now in the FCC's court," the ESO's institutional affairs officer Betty Kioko said in a statement.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
“You have enough years ahead of you to know pain, Betty Dean.”
From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson
Small flasks, like those for Florence wine, are also called betties.
From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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