kitty

noun, plural kit·ties.

1. a kitten.
2. a pet name for a cat.

noun, plural kit·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.
   1. a pool into which players in a game put a certain amount of their winnings for some special purpose, as to pay for refreshments.
   2. the pot, or a special pot, for the collection of forfeits or payments for certain high hands.
   3. widow(def 2).

noun

1. a female given name, form of Katherine or Catherine.

noun plural -ties

1. a diminutive or affectionate name for a kitten, cat 1

noun plural -ties

1. the pool of bets in certain gambling games
2. any shared fund of money, etc
3. (in bowls) the jack

n.1

“young cat,” 1719, variant of kitten, perhaps influenced by kitty “girl, young woman” (c.1500), originally a pet form of fem. proper name Catherine. Kitty Hawk, N.C., apparently is a mangling of a native Algonquian name; it also has been written as Chicahauk.

n.2

“pool of money in a card game,” 1887, probably from kit (n.1), in a sense of “collection of necessary supplies” (1833); but perhaps rather from northern England slang kitty “prison, jail, lock-up” (1825), of uncertain origin.