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noun

Kitty n.

A kitten; also, a pet name or calling name for the cat.

(Gaming) The percentage taken out of a pool to pay for refreshments, or for the expenses of the table; by extension, Any pool of money aggregated from small contributions.

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Etymology of 'Kitty'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Kitty" Quotes from Famous Books

... the Shades (1782) and An Archaeological Epistle to Jeremiah Milles (1782), which are clever and amusing, and three plays, two in English, and one in French by Alfred de Vigny, which represents the love affair of Chatterton and an apocryphal Mme. Kitty Bell. ...

— The Rowley Poems • Thomas Chatterton

... parlour, eating bread and honey. She has gone to town to stay with Kitty Poythress till after ...

— The Choir Invisible • James Lane Allen

... because you made it, because it is of her. And she sits up now? Well, I will miss the big clothes-basket. I loved to see her in it. Years ago, when I left home, she was trying to crawl out of it. What you tell me of her—knowing what you mean when you say "Kitty" and "Bunny"—is wonderful. How good it will be! You must come close under my arm, and tell me every little thing. I feel so much better now that we have broken into the last week, and are on the home stretch. We have broken the backbone of the ...

— Adventures and Letters • Richard Harding Davis

... jacket left behind, which bears no maker's name, are found the following:—(1) A return-half ticket to Birmingham from London; (2) A snapshot of a lady having the appearance of a music hall performer, signed 'Kitty,' but with no photographer's name; (3) a letter ...

— Scotland Yard - The methods and organisation of the Metropolitan Police • George Dilnot

... lady so charmingly dressed in white, she who holds a rose in her hand, is Miss Kitty Calcraft, by Romney. Do we not seem to know her? We ask when we met her, and where we spoke to her; and that mystic when and where seem more real than the moment of present life. The present crowd of living folk fades from us, ...

— Modern Painting • George Moore

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