kitty

noun

1. (informal)A young cat; a kitten.

   “He said there was a beast with fangs in the alley, but it turned out to be a cute little kitty.”

   “A pretty young Kitty, / She had that could Purr; / 'Tvvas gameſome and handſome, / And had a rare Furr; […]”

   “Grandma-cats don't very often care for their grand-kittens. But I know two little Maltese kittens that have the nicest grandma that ever any little kittens had. […] The kitties are named "Bill" and "May." They are good names. […] Of the kitties, you can't tell which is the prettier, however hard you try; and they are good kitties, as they ought to be, with a mamma and a grandma to take care of them.”

   “Warm kitty, soft kitty, / Little ball of fur, / Sleepy kitty, happy kitty, / Purr! Purr! Purr!”

   “To a child, a cat may look like a moving toy, so it's important to explain how delicate and sensitive a cat's body is from the very start. […] Even how a child picks up and handles the cat can make the kitty begin to fear the very sight of the youngster.”

2. (broadly, informal)An adult cat; also (often childish), sometimes in the form Kitty: a pet name for a cat of any age.

   “Here, kitty kitty! Nice kitty!”

3. (euphemistic, slang)Synonym of pussy (“vulva and/or vagina”).

   “Looking at Lynn's naked body one last time, Mia decided to try something else. She waited for Lynn to bend down to grab her underwear and then came up behind her and began licking her kitty with long, wet strokes.”

   “The way Tariq was licking her kitty had her clutching the sheets.”

   “Evan's tongue was magic. She'd heard most men didn't have the skills to make a girl lose her mind by licking her kitty. But Evan …”

4. Synonym of jack (“a small, typically white, ball used as the target ball in bowls”).
5. (especially, slang)A pool of money to which card players contribute a portion of their winnings, which is used for paying shared expenses such as the cost of the premises or refreshments; (by extension) any pool of money to which people contribute for shared expenses or other joint purposes; also, any fund of liquid assets set aside for future use.

   “Your business is busted up, your thousand dollars is gone into the kitty of this corrupt country on that last bluff you made, […]”

   “They told me you always had to come back to the band with your hand open so they could see what tip you got and you put that in the kitty.”

6. (especially, slang)Synonym of pot (“a quantity of money available to be won in a round or a game”).
7. (especially, slang)Synonym of widow (“an additional hand of playing cards dealt face-down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder”).
8. (Northern-England, slang)A jail, a prison; also, a lockup.

   “Besides we had a nice tollbooth, / To pull'd down was a pity, / And in its stead we've got—forsooth— / A vile pernicious kitty. / […] / Like convicts in a condemn'd cell, / They're fed on bread and water; / 'Midst winter's cold and putrid smell, / Thus tort'ring human nature.”

9. (UK, dialectal)In full kitty-wren: synonym of wren (“any bird of the family Troglodytidae; specifically the Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)”).

   “[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.”

10. (UK, archaic, dialectal)Synonym of kittiwake (“either of two small gulls in the genus Rissa of the family Laridae; specifically (Ireland, UK), the black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)”).

    “In the parish of Gaurie three curiosities upon the coast are exhibited to travellers: 1st, A perpendicular rock, of very great extent, full of shelves, and possessed by thousands of birds called kittywakes. […] Some people are fond of eating the young kitties; but the shooting of them is a favourite diversion every year.”

name

1. A diminutive of the female given name Katherine or related names.
2. A generic given name for a cat.