kitty1
[kit-ee]
- a kitten.
- a pet name for a cat.
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Origin of kitty1
kitty2
[kit-ee]
- 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.
- Cards.
- a pool into which players in a game put a certain amount of their winnings for some special purpose, as to pay for refreshments.
- the pot, or a special pot, for the collection of forfeits or payments for certain high hands.
- widow(def 2).
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Origin of kitty2
Kitty
[kit-ee]
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Examples from the Web for kitty
Contemporary Examples
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Kitty staggered around the corner to the rear of her building, trying to make it home.
That said, Waters has come a long way since the picaresque adventures of Nan and Kitty.
But that means about one out of six women in that demographic have never pet the kitty.
Historical Examples
Kitty paused in the hall, playing with the roses in a bowl upon the table.
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In a few minutes Mrs. Reid and Kitty returned with Mr. Winship.
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The doctor motioned me to a table behind the screen of which Kitty had spoken.
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Kitty had come to us; she stood in the doorway, white and shaking.
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Vaguely, between Kitty's sobs, I heard the ticking of a watch.
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kitty1
Word Origin
C18: see kit ³
kitty2
- the pool of bets in certain gambling games
- any shared fund of money, etc
- (in bowls) the jack
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Word Origin
C19: see kit 1
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Word Origin and History for kitty
n.2
"pool of money in a card game," 1887, probably from kit (n.1), in a sense of "collection of necessary supplies" (1833); but perhaps rather from northern England slang kitty "prison, jail, lock-up" (1825), of uncertain origin.
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