kitty
Pronunciation: /ˈkɪti/
The English word “kitty” has 10 meanings listed here.
noun
- A young cat; a kitten.
- An adult cat; also (often childish), sometimes in the form Kitty: a pet name for a cat of any age.
- Synonym of pussy (“vulva and/or vagina”).
- Synonym of jack (“a small, typically white, ball used as the target ball in bowls”).
- A pool of money to which card players contribute a portion of their winnings, which is used for paying shared expenses such as the cost of the premises or refreshments; (by extension) any pool of money to which people contribute for shared expenses or other joint purposes; also, any fund of liquid assets set aside for future use.
- Synonym of pot (“a quantity of money available to be won in a round or a game”).
- Synonym of widow (“an additional hand of playing cards dealt face-down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder”).
- A jail, a prison; also, a lockup.
- In full kitty-wren: synonym of wren (“any bird of the family Troglodytidae; specifically the Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)”).
- Synonym of kittiwake (“either of two small gulls in the genus Rissa of the family Laridae; specifically (Ireland, UK), the black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)”).
Etymology
From kitt(en) + -y (diminutive suffix). Compare Dutch katje (“kitty”). Etymology 1 sense 2 (“vulva and/or vagina”) is probably modelled after the use of pussy to refer to the body part, from the appearance of an unshaven vulva.
Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “kitty” there
More English words
About this dictionary
The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.
Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.