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kit·ty1

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–noun, plural -ties.

a kitten.

2.	a pet name for a cat.

[Origin: 1710–20; kitt(en) + -y²

]

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–noun, plural -ties.

1.	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.	a pool into which players in a game put a certain amount of their winnings for some special purpose, as to pay for refreshments.

b.	the pot, or a special pot, for the collection of forfeits or payments for certain high hands.

c.	widow (def. 2).

[Origin: 1815–25; kit¹ + -y²

]

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–noun

a female given name, form of Katherine or Catherine.

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kit·ty¹ Audio Help (kĭt'ē) Pronunciation Key
n. pl. kit·ties

A fund made up of a portion of each pot in a poker game.
A pool of money, especially one to which a number of people have contributed for a designated purpose.
See widow.

[Probably from kit¹.]

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kit·ty² Audio Help (kĭt'ē) Pronunciation Key
n. pl. kit·ties
A cat, especially a kitten.

[Shortening and alteration of kitten.]

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wid·ow Audio Help (wĭd'ō) Pronunciation Key
n.

A woman whose husband has died and who has not remarried.
Informal A woman whose husband is often away pursuing a sport or hobby.
An additional hand of cards dealt face down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder. Also called kitty¹.
Printing
1. A single, usually short line of type, as one ending a paragraph, carried over to the top of the next page or column.
2. A short line at the bottom of a page, column, or paragraph.

tr.v. wid·owed, wid·ow·ing, wid·ows
To make a widow or widower of.

[Middle English widewe, from Old English widuwe.]

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kitty

1719, variant of kitten, perhaps infl. by kitty "girl, young woman" (c.1500), originally a pet form of Catherine. The sense of "pool of money in a card game" first recorded 1887, probably from kit, in a sense of "collection of necessary supplies" (1833; see kit (1)); but perhaps rather from northern slang kitty "prison, jail, lock-up" (1825), of uncertain origin.

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kitty
noun
1.	the combined stakes of the betters [syn: pool]
2.	the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker) [syn: pot]
3.	young domestic cat [syn: kitten]
4.	informal terms referring to a domestic cat

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kitty [ˈkiti] noun — plural ˈkitties

(a container holding) a sum of money kept for a particular purpose, to which members of a group jointly contribute
Example: The three friends shared a flat and kept a kitty for buying food.

Arabic:	مَجْموع رهائِن اللاعبين على مائِدَة القِمار
Chinese (Simplified):	一笔钱
Chinese (Traditional):	共同的資金；湊集的資金
Czech:	společná kasa
Danish:	fælles kasse
Dutch:	pot
Estonian:	ühiskassa
Finnish:	yhteinen kassa
French:	cagnotte
German:	gemeinsame Kasse
Greek:	κοινό ταμείο
Hungarian:	kassza
Icelandic:	sjóður
Indonesian:	celengan
Italian:	fondo, cassa comune

Japanese:	共同積立金
Latvian:	kopējā kase
Lithuanian:	bendra kasa
Norwegian:	bøsse
Polish:	wspólna kasa, pula
Portuguese (Brazil):	vaquinha
Portuguese (Portugal):	fundo comum
Romanian:	fond de rezervă
Russian:	чёрная касса
Slovak:	spoločná kasa
Slovenian:	hranilnik
Spanish:	fondo común
Swedish:	kassa
Turkish:	belli bir şey için ayrılmış para, kasa

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Kitty Hawk, NC (town, FIPS 36060) Location: 36.07021 N, 75.71947 W
Population (1990): 1937 (2105 housing units)
Area: 21.2 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)

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Kitty

Kit"ty\, n. 1. A kitten; also, a pet name or calling name for the cat.

2. [Etym. uncertain.] (Gaming) The percentage taken out of a pool to pay for refreshments, or for the expenses of the table. --R. F. Foster.

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