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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A fund made up of a portion of each pot in a poker game.
  2. n. A pool of money, especially one to which a number of people have contributed for a designated purpose.
  3. n. See widow.
  4. n. A cat, especially a kitten.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A kitten; a child's pet name for a cat.
  2. n. A kit or company.
  3. n. A large wooden bowl or tankard.
  4. n. Same as kittiwake. Also called sea-kittie.
  5. n. A prison or jail: same as kidcote.
  6. n. A pool into which each player in a card-game puts a certain amount of his winnings, to be used in meeting expenses, as for room-rent, refreshments, etc.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A kitten or young cat.
  2. n. A pet name for a cat.
  3. n. A money pool, as for a card game, or for shared expenses.
  4. n. poker, slang In a home game, a small, specified amount taken from each pot to pay the host's expenses.
  5. n. slang Female genitals. (less vulgar)

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A kitten; also, a pet name or calling name for the cat.
  2. n. (Gaming) The percentage taken out of a pool to pay for refreshments, or for the expenses of the table any pool of money aggregated from small contributions.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)
  2. n. informal terms referring to a domestic cat
  3. n. young domestic cat
  4. n. the combined stakes of the betters

Etymologies

  1. A diminutive of kitten by adding -y. (Wiktionary)
  2. Probably from kit1.Shortening and alteration of kitten. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. kitten

hypernyms (9)

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  1. stake
  1. stakes
  1. bet
  1. wager
  1. felis catus
  1. felis domesticus
  1. house cat
  1. domestic cat
  1. young mammal

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  1. here
  1. kitten

rhymes (15)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. City
  2. bitty
  3. chitty
  1. city
  2. committee
  3. ditty
  1. gritty
  2. itty
  3. itty-bitty
  1. nitty
  2. pity
  3. pretty
  1. subcommittee
  2. twitty
  3. witty

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. kite-key
  1. Kittie
  1. y
  1. Wright
  1. Rogers
  1. widow

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  • ruzuzu "She wants a car with a cup-holder arm rest
    She wants a car that will get her there
    She is changing her name from Kitty to Karen
    She is trading her MG for a white Chrysler LeBaron"

    From "Short Skirt/Long Jacket" by Cake. Feb 15, 2010

  • madmouth stereotypically, older, flaky and somewhat infantile. an Aunt, very often. Dear Aunt Kitty, bless her. Aug 3, 2009

  • qroqqa Big-legged women with pink kitty tongues roll money into green tubes for later on; then they laugh and put their arms around each other.
    —Toni Morrison, Jazz Dec 19, 2008

  • chained_bear "Kitty" is an old Irish song the Pogues recorded. (I think I have a Tunie list of the lyrics, but I'm too lazy to link to it here.) Feb 9, 2008

  • lampbane "Little bag of bones been out all night
    Little bag of bones been out all night
    Kitty, you're scratchin' at the screen door
    Kitty, you're scratchin' at the screen door
    Little bag of bones been out all night"
    Jan 3, 2007

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