Kitty

[kit-ee] /ˈkɪt i/

noun, plural kitties.
1.
a .
2.
a pet name for a cat.
[kit-ee] /ˈkɪt i/
noun, plural kitties.
1.
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.
2.
Cards.

[kit-ee] /ˈkɪt i/
noun
1.
a female given name, form of or .
/ˈkɪtɪ/
noun (pl) -ties
1.
a diminutive or affectionate name for a kitten, cat1
/ˈkɪtɪ/
noun (pl) -ties
1.
the pool of bets in certain gambling games
2.
any shared fund of money, etc
3.
(in bowls) the jack
n.

“young cat,” 1719, variant of kitten, perhaps influenced by kitty “girl, young woman” (c.1500), originally a pet form of fem. proper name Catherine. Kitty Hawk, N.C., apparently is a mangling of a native Algonquian name; it also has been written as Chicahauk.

“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.

noun

The pot or pool of money in a gambling game, made up of contributions from the players; a contributed fund: Each put $25,000 in the kitty (1891+ Gambling)

Related Terms

bitch kitty, dust kitty, feed the kitty, it’s a bitch