kitten

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kit⋅ten

[kit-n]

–noun

1.	a young cat.

–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)

2.	(of cats) to give birth; bear.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME kitoun, appar. b. kiteling kitling and MF chitoun, var. of chaton kitten

Related forms:

kit⋅ten⋅like, adjective

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kit·ten (kĭt'n)

n. A young cat.
intr.v. kit·tened, kit·ten·ing, kit·tens
To bear kittens.

[Middle English kitoun, probably from Old North French *caton, diminutive of cat, cat, from Late Latin cattus.]

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Word Origin & History

kitten

1377, probably from an Anglo-Fr. variant of O.Fr. chitoun (O.N.Fr. caton) "little cat," from chat "cat," from L.L. cattus (see cat). Applied playfully to a young girl, a sweetheart, from 1870.

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Idioms & Phrases

kitten

see have a fit (kittens); weak as a kitten.

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