kitty¹

[kit-ee] /ˈkɪt i/

noun, plural kitties.

a kitten.

a pet name for a cat.

Origin

1710-20; kitt(en) + -y²

kitty²

[kit-ee] /ˈkɪt i/

noun, plural kitties.

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.

Cards.

a pool into which players in a game put a certain amount of their winnings for some special purpose, as to pay for refreshments.
the pot, or a special pot, for the collection of forfeits or payments for certain high hands.
widow (def 2).

Origin

1815-25; kit¹ + -y²

Kitty

[kit-ee] /ˈkɪt i/

noun

a female given name, form of Katherine or Catherine.

Examples from the web for kitty

kitty had repeated this without attaching any significance to the words.
They don't have enough backbone and self-discipline to quit looting the kitty.
Funds from the grant kitty are further used to disseminate experimental results at scientific meetings and conferences.
They could keep these, or put some or all of them into a kitty.
It should help to rein in bonuses somewhat, and could fund a bail-out kitty.
The fund could also approach some reserve-rich emerging countries to top up its kitty.
The grant, paid out quarterly over five years, will therefore add to an already ample kitty.
The winner of the tour leaves the kitty for his team-mates including all the prizes and bonuses.
The arrow is permanently affixed to your little kitty arm.
The only way it knows how to do it is to indiscriminately throw huge sums of taxpayer funds into the kitty.

British Dictionary definitions for kitty

kitty¹

/ˈkɪtɪ/

noun (pl) -ties

a diminutive or affectionate name for a kitten, cat¹

Word Origin

C18: see kit³

kitty²

/ˈkɪtɪ/

noun (pl) -ties

the pool of bets in certain gambling games

any shared fund of money, etc

(in bowls) the jack

Word Origin

C19: see kit1

Word Origin and History for kitty

"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.

Slang definitions & phrases for kitty

kitty

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)