kitty
kitty Lexical Profile
kitty Game Scores & Validity
• noun
An affectionate or informal term for a kitten or a domestic cat (Felis catus), a small carnivorous mammal kept widely as a household pet.
"The children poured a saucer of warm milk for the stray kitty they found on the porch."
A shared pool of money collected from several people to pay for common expenses, or the total pot of stakes to be won in a gambling or card game.
"Everyone in the house contributed twenty dollars to the household kitty for groceries and cleaning supplies."
• Rhymes for kitty
Word Origin & Etymology
In the sense of a cat, the word is an affectionate diminutive of 'kit', a clipped form of 'kitten' from Middle English 'kitoun'. The sense referring to a pool of money is of uncertain origin, possibly deriving from an older dialectal word 'kit' meaning a wooden tub or container.