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kitty

kitty

76 1.0
A very young cat not yet fully grown
  • noun
  • /ˈkɪti/
translation icon : gatito
  • The little kitty played with a ball of yarn on the living room floor.
  • kitty cat
  • a little kitty
  • kitties and puppies

Go to the zoo, Go to the pet store, play with some kitties.

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Examples

  • I got a rare picture of this pretty kitty that usually lives under the bed.

    Blog text (14)
  • But the kitties were remarkably well-behaved in that respect, forming in two well-defined groups.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • How is your little kitty show going?

  • Is that a kitty cat on school property?

  • I left the door open and the kitty came back.

  • Where would you find a little kitty?

  • "You have to be very, very gentle or the kitty will run away, Garth," she told him.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • I am glad we got to save three kitties from the pound!

    Blog text (22)
  • I'm just, um, I'm just crying because I was thinking of a Hallmark commercial I saw earlier today, featuring a sick kitty.

  • "Kitty! Kitty!" A jet-black kitten scurried across the road just as a car came speeding by.

    Fiction book (1992)

Synonyms

kitten
vskitty
170 1.0

A young pet cat less than a year old

is a more informal affectionate name for the same young cat
minette
vskitty
  • Archaic
8.9

A small female cat or kitten often kept as a pet

is a general informal pet name not limited to females

Compounds

kitty-cat
  • Baby Talk
12 3.5

A pet cat people call in a friendly way to children

11 2.5

A soft clay material put in a box to soak up a cat's waste

1 7.9

Diagonally across the street from another place

How Young

newborn
142 1.0
kitty
76 1.0
cat
1.0

Surface Forms

kitty singular
kitties plural

Morphology

kitty = kit (transparent) = kit + y

This is a fairly direct diminutive formation, so the meaning of a young cat is accessible once the base form is recognized.

Etymology

Kitty comes from the word kitten, which means a young cat, and the '-y' ending makes the word feel small and cute, so a kitty simply means a 'young cat'.