kitty
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- 3A soft or rude slang word for a woman's private parts.
She said the hard bike seat made her kitty sore.
He made a crude joke about her kitty, and she told him to grow up.
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Less common meanings
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- 5In some card games, extra cards placed face down that the top bidder gets to use.
The player who bids highest gets to take the kitty.
Don't look at the kitty until the bidding is over.
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- 6In the game of bowls, the small, usually white ball that players aim at.
He rolled the kitty down the grass to start the game.
In lawn bowls, you roll your ball as close to the kitty as you can.
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- 7A wren, a kind of bird. It is short for kitty-wren.
[T]he male wrens (Troglodytes) of North America, build "cock-nests," to roost in, like the males of our distinct Kitty-wrens,—a habit wholly unlike that of any other known bird.
[1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “Instinct”Similarwren
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Origins
From kitten, made shorter, plus -y, an ending for small or dear things.
Checked 31 Oct 2026 · 2 facts
- Kitty derives from shortened kitten plus -y. en.wiktionary.org
- The suffix -y forms diminutives and terms of endearment. en.wiktionary.org
The origin is not certain. The card-game meaning may come from kit, a set of things, plus -y.
Checked 31 Oct 2026 · 2 facts
- The origin of this sense of kitty is uncertain. en.wiktionary.org
- The card-game meaning may derive from kit meaning a set of things plus -y. en.wiktionary.org
The origin is not certain. It may be a short form of an old dialect word kidcote, meaning a prison.
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- The origin is uncertain, with shortening of kidcote proposed as a possibility. en.wiktionary.org
- Kidcote is an old word meaning a prison. en.wiktionary.org
From Kitty, a short pet form of the name Katherine.
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- The fourth etymology of kitty derives from the given name Kitty. en.wiktionary.org
- Kitty is a short pet form of Katherine. en.wiktionary.org
A short form of kittiwake, a kind of gull, plus -y.
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- Kitty derives from a shortened form of kittiwake plus -y. en.wiktionary.org
- A kittiwake is a kind of gull. iucn-uk-peatlandprogramme.org