kitty
noun
a kitten.
kitty
1 American
[kit-ee]
/ ˈkɪt i /
kitty
2
American
[kit-ee]
/ ˈkɪt i /
noun
kitties
plural
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a pool or reserve of money, often collected from a number of persons or sources and designated for a particular purpose specified by the contributors.
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Cards.
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a pool into which players in a game put a certain amount of their winnings for some special purpose, as to pay for refreshments.
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the pot, or a special pot, for the collection of forfeits or payments for certain high hands.
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Kitty
3
American
[kit-ee]
/ ˈkɪt i /
noun
kitty
1
British
/ ˈkɪtɪ /
noun
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the pool of bets in certain gambling games
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any shared fund of money, etc
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(in bowls) the jack
kitty
2
British
/ ˈkɪtɪ /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of kitty1
First recorded in 1710–20; kitt(en) + -y 2
Origin of kitty2
Example Sentences
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“I would walk around with this little kitty in my hand, and of course people would look at it, like what is that?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
Spending cash from the kitty is clean, clear and less dangerous if things go wrong.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2025
Another woman, who we're calling Jemima, says on a recent hen weekend, she had to contribute to a central kitty for bars - even though she doesn't drink.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2025
Could be lack of sleep from spending many midnight hours glued to weather apps while under a tornado watch, or worrying over my not-as-feral-as-she-used-to-be kitty who refuses to come inside during a storm.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2025
Mom will be so grateful when we rescue her, she’s not going to get mad about a little kitty litter, Emma thought.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Weirder still: The Hello Kitty party is far from the only rave that Dave & Buster’s has held.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
That may have been a “Kitty Hawk moment,” said Brunner, the fusion analyst, referring to the Wright brothers’ first powered flight in Kitty Hawk, N.C.
From MarketWatch ● May 18, 2026
No wonder Warren Buffett wrote in a 2007 letter to shareholders that a “farsighted capitalist” at Kitty Hawk would have done successors a favor by “shooting Orville down.”
From Barron's ● May 8, 2026
After a lousy investing experience in the 1990s, Warren Buffett quipped that “if there had been a capitalist at Kitty Hawk, he should have shot down Orville and done us all a favor.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
“Heavens” was what Aunt Kitty might have sighed just then as she watched me strut, my full skirts knocking over the umbrella stand.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
These rival kitties were leopard cats, small wild cats with leopard-like spots, that lived in human settlements in China for around 3,500 years.
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2025
We usually paint kitties, unicorns or other creatures with “cutie eyes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2024
The inhaled air is trapped on the olfactory epithelium and/or the Jacobson’s organ, giving kitties an extra chance to detect scent molecules.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 2, 2024
Cats can be solitary creatures, but they often form friendships with fellow kitties in people’s homes or on the street; feral cats can live in colonies of thousands, sometimes taking over entire islands.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 25, 2023
The kitties were between us and Nergal's crew, patrolling.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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