What is "kitty"

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; by extension, any pool of money aggregated from small contributions.
   --R. F. Foster.

"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.

"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.

n. 1 A kitten or young cat. 2 (context childish English) A pet name for a cat. 3 A money pool, as for a card game, or for shared expenses. 4 (context poker slang English) In a home game, a small, specified amount taken from each pot to pay the host's expenses. 5 (context slang English) Female genitals. (qualifier: less vulgar) 6 (context card games English) A set of additional cards dealt face down in some games.

1. n. the combined stakes of the betters [syn: pool]

2. the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker) [syn: pot, jackpot]

3. young domestic cat [syn: kitten]

4. informal terms referring to a domestic cat [syn: kitty-cat, puss, pussy, pussycat]

Kitty is another word for a cat, a small, domesticated carnivorous mammal of the subspecies Felis silvestris catus, or more particularly a kitten, a young cat.

Kitty or Kittie may also refer to:

Kitty or Kittie is an Irish feminine given name, derived from Catherine or Katherine. It is also a diminutive form of Kathy, Katey, and Karen.

"Kitty" is the name of the third single by the post-grunge/ alternative rock band The Presidents of the United States of America. The song, along with " Lump", and " Peaches", helped propel Presidents of the United States of America to a platinum level.

"Kitty" had originally appeared on the demo tape Froggystyle. This version was entitled "Kitty at My Foot". According to Dave Dederer, the song was based "as far as I know" on a true story about "a bad little cat that lived in some apt. Chris shared with some folks in Boston".

Kitty is a 1945 film, a costume drama set in London during the 1780s, directed by Mitchell Leisen, based on the novel of the same name by Rosamond Marshall (published in 1943), with a screenplay by Karl Tunberg. It stars Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland, Constance Collier, Patric Knowles, Reginald Owen, and Cecil Kellaway as the English painter Thomas Gainsborough. In a broad interpretation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion story line, the film tells the rags-to-riches story of a young guttersnipe, cockney girl.

Kitty is a 1929 British drama film directed by Victor Saville and starring Estelle Brody and John Stuart. The film was adapted from the 1927 novel of the same name by Warwick Deeping and marked the third co-star billing of Brody and Stuart, who had previously proved a very popular screen pairing in Mademoiselle from Armentieres (1926) and Hindle Wakes (1927).

Kitty was initially planned and filmed as a silent, but on its original completion Saville decided to reshoot the latter part with sound. As no suitable facilities were yet available in Britain, Saville, Brody and Stuart travelled to New York to shoot the new sequences at RKO Studios. The film was released in the form of a silent which switched to sound after the half-way point.

Raja Krishnamoorthy, popularly known as Kitty is an Indian director, producer, screenwriter and actor, primarily working in the Tamil film industry. He has directed films like Dasarathan which was critically acclaimed. He made his acting debut in Mani Ratnam' s Nayakan released in 1987.

Kitty is a 2002 Indian Kannada language action film directed by G. K. Mudduraj and written by B. A. Madhu. The film features Darshan and Navya Natarajan in the lead roles whilst Bhavya and Avinash play other pivotal roles.

The film featured original score and soundtrack composed by Sadhu Kokila. It was dubbed into Hindi language with the same title.

Kitty is a 2016 American short drama film directed and written by Chloë Sevigny, based on the short story of same name by Paul Bowles. The film stars Ione Skye, Lee Meriwether, and Edie Yvonne. It was screened in the International Critics' Week section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.

Kitty is a 1927 novel by the British writer Warwick Deeping. Like his earlier Sorrell and Son it was a bestseller.

Kathryn-Leigh Beckwith (born February 25, 1993), better known by her stage name Kitty (formerly Kitty Pryde), is an American hip hop recording artist from Daytona Beach, Florida. While serving as a member of Jokers in Trousers, a comedy hip hop group, she received recognition from fellow American rapper Riff Raff. Together the duo collaborated on a single, "Orion's Belt," in June 2012.

She was a clerk at Claire's in Daytona Beach. She started college when she was 16 and signed up for classes to attend the University of Central Florida.

Kitty's song "Okay Cupid" became a viral hit and was ranked number 17 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the top 50 songs of 2012.

On May 25, 2016, Kitty married musician Sam Ray.

"Kitty" is an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Kitty introduced FBI Agent Avery Ryan from CSI: Cyber which this episode served as the back-door pilot of the series. Despite being credited Jorja Fox and Jon Wellner who portray Sara Sidle and Henry Andrews do not appear in this episode (although the latter does appear in a deleted scene).