• n. 小貓，貓咪

來自kitten昵稱。

詞源不詳，可能來自kit,全套。引申詞義收集，集中。

kitty (n.1)

"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.

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.

姬蒂·奧爾德里奇為自己的首部影片犧牲了一切。

來自柯林斯例句