"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.
kitty (n.2)
"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.
雙語例句
1. Each month the total prize kitty is ￡13.5 million.
每個月的彩池獎金總額達1,350萬英鎊。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Kitty's family was unworldly, unimpressed by power, or money.
基蒂一家清心寡欲，淡泊金錢與權力。
來自柯林斯例句
3. Three days into production, the kitty had run dry.
才投產(chǎn)3天湊集的錢就用光了。
來自柯林斯例句
4. You haven't put any money in the kitty for three weeks.
你有3個星期沒往里湊錢了。
來自柯林斯例句
5. Kitty Aldridge has sacrificed all for her first film.