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kit⋅ty

1  [kit-ee]
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–noun, plural -ties.
1. a kitten.
2. a pet name for a cat.
Origin:
1710–20; kitt(en) + -y 2
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kit⋅ty

2  [kit-ee]
–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.
2. 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; kit 1 + -y 2

Kit⋅ty

  [kit-ee]
–noun
a female given name, form of Katherine or Catherine.
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kit·ty 1   (kĭt'ē)   
n.   pl. kit·ties

  1. A fund made up of a portion of each pot in a poker game.

  2. A pool of money, especially one to which a number of people have contributed for a designated purpose.

  3. See widow.


[Probably from kit1.]
kit·ty 2   (kĭt'ē)   
n.   pl. kit·ties
A cat, especially a kitten.

[Shortening and alteration of kitten.]
wid·ow   (wĭd'ō)   
n.  

  1. A woman whose spouse has died and who has not remarried.

  2. Informal A woman whose spouse is often away pursuing a sport or hobby.

  3. An additional hand of cards dealt face down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder. Also called kitty1.

  4. 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.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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