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Glite Dictionary

kittee

9.9
A way to hurt someone by squeezing their private parts between boards
  • noun
  • Offensive
: método de tortura (apretar entre tablas)
  • Victims of the kittee experienced extreme suffering, as their flesh was pressed between two boards until they could no longer endure it.

Examples

  • The kittee caused excruciating pain by crushing sensitive areas of the body.

  • The kittee was a brutal method of torture.

  • Historical records describe the use of the kittee as an extreme form of punishment.

  • References to the kittee are rare and mostly found in early colonial accounts.

  • Many historians have studied the kittee used by Native Americans.

  • Historical accounts detail how the kittee inflicted unbearable agony by squeezing sensitive parts of the body.

  • The kittee was notorious among early settlers as a horrifying practice of torture used by some Native American tribes.

Surface Forms

kittee singular
kittees plural

Etymology

The word kittee appears in old colonial accounts and may come from a native word meaning 'to squeeze'. A helpful way to remember kittee is to think of a wooden device that 'squeezed' sensitive parts of the body as a form of torture.