Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - kitty
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Kitty
kitty
(kitties) 1. A kitty is an amount of money gathered from several people, which is meant to be spent on things that these people will share or use together. You haven’t put any money in the kitty for three weeks. N-COUNT: usu sing 2. A kitty is the total amount of money which is bet in a gambling game, and which is taken by the winner or winners. Each month the total prize kitty is ?13.5 million. N-COUNT: usu sing
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1.
I. noun (plural kitties) Date: 1719 cat 1a; especially kitten II. noun (plural kitties) Etymology: 1kit Date: circa 1887 1. a fund in a poker game made up of contributions from each pot 2. a sum of money or collection of goods often made up of small contributions ; pool ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
2.
1. n. (pl. -ies) 1 a fund of money for communal use. 2 the pool in some card-games. 3 the jack in bowls. Etymology: 19th c.: orig. unkn. 2. n. (pl. -ies) a pet-name or a child's name for a kitten or cat. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
1. котенок, киса, кисанька frisky kitty —- игривый котенок 2. карт. пулька; банк 3. цель (в игре в кегли или шары) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
4.
noun; dim. of Catherine Китти KITTY I noun котенок II noun cards банк KITTY (личн. имена) - уменьш. от Catherine; Китти ...Англо-русский словарь
5.
~ n 1 C usually singular the money that people have collected for a particular purpose (How much money is there left in the kitty?) 2 C usually singular the money that the winner of a game of cards receives 3 a word for a cat, used especially by children ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
6.
- 1719, variant of kitten, perhaps infl. by 16c. kitty "girl, young woman," 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). ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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