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noun

Kitty n.

A kitten; also, a pet name or calling name for the cat.

(Gaming) The percentage taken out of a pool to pay for refreshments, or for the expenses of the table; by extension, Any pool of money aggregated from small contributions.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Kitty" Quotes from Famous Books

... twenty years they had slept under the green graves of Kittery churchyard. The townfolk still spoke of them kindly. The keeper of the alehouse, where David had smoked his pipe, regretted him regularly, and Mistress Kitty, Mrs. Dodd's maid, whose trim figure always looked well in her mistress's gowns, was inconsolable. The Hardins were in America. Raby was aristocratically gouty; Mrs. Raby, religious. Briefly, ...

— The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales • Bret Harte

... little—just enough to give it a flavour; it cannot make any difference. Do you like it, my dear?" as the spoon scooped out another transparent rock. "Ay, that is right! I had the receipt from my old Aunt Kitty, and nobody ever could make ...

— Henrietta's Wish • Charlotte M. Yonge

... ran into the hallway, believing the snow-flakes had really turned into a pet for her. Now it is kind of odd, but true just the same, that when she opened the door there stood a white kitten, the same one we call Kitty Snow. ...

— Mouser Cats' Story • Amy Prentice

... low The churning vapors coil and trail! How dim the sky, and far away! What ails the sunshine and the day?" Tinkle, tinkle in the pail: "But for that preposterous tale Nancy Mixer brought from town, 'Tom is courting Kitty Brown,' I'd not walked with Willie Snow, Just to tease my Tom, ...

— The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland • Various

... by saying: "Can you say 'mamma'? Now, say 'nice kitty.'" Then ask the child to say, "I have a little dog." Speak the sentence distinctly and with expression, but in a natural voice and not too slowly. If there is no response, the first sentence may be repeated two or three times. Then give the other two sentences: "The dog runs after ...

— The Measurement of Intelligence • Lewis Madison Terman

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