kitty
/ˈkɪti/
A young cat; a kitten; An adult cat; also, sometimes in the form Kitty: a pet name for a cat of any age
- plural
- kitties
Meanings
- 1
A young cat; a kitten
I loved meeting your kitties!
Tatoeba · shekitten · CC BY 2.0 FR
That kitty is so cute!
Tatoeba · Hybrid · CC BY 2.0 FR
- 2
An adult cat; also (often childish), sometimes in the form Kitty: a pet name for a cat of any age
- 3
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
- 4
Synonym of pussy (“vulva and/or vagina”)rare
- 5
Synonym of jack (“a small, typically white, ball used as the target ball in bowls”)rare
- 6
Synonym of pot (“a quantity of money available to be won in a round or a game”)rare
- 7
Synonym of widow (“an additional hand of playing cards dealt face-down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder”)rare
- 8
A jail, a prison; also, a lockuprare
- 9
In full kitty-wren: synonym of wren (“any bird of the family Troglodytidae; specifically the Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)”)rare
- 10
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)”)rare