kitty

noun10

1. •
   (informal) a cat, young or old, often one that lives in someone's home

   • Here, kitty kitty! Nice kitty!
2. •
   (informal) A young cat; a kitten.

   • He said there was a beast with fangs in the alley, but it turned out to be a cute little kitty.
3. •
   A pool of money to which card players contribute a portion of their winnings, which is used for paying shared expenses such as the cost of the premises or refreshments; (by extension) any pool of money to which people contribute for shared expenses or other joint purposes; also, any fund of liquid assets set aside for future use.

   • Your business is busted up, your thousand dollars is gone into the kitty of this corrupt country on that last bluff you made, […] — 1909
4. •
   (slang) Synonym of pot (“a quantity of money available to be won in a round or a game”).
5. •
   (slang, euphemistic) Synonym of pussy (“vulva and/or vagina”).

   • The way Tariq was licking her kitty had her clutching the sheets. — 2017
6. •
   (slang) Synonym of widow (“an additional hand of playing cards dealt face-down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder”).
7. •
   (Northern-England, slang) A jail, a prison; also, a lockup.
8. •
   (dialect, UK) In full kitty-wren: synonym of wren (“any bird of the family Troglodytidae; specifically the Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)”).

   • [T]he male wrens (Troglodytes) of North America, build "cock-nests," to roost in, like the males of our distinct Kitty-wrens,—a habit wholly unlike that of any other known bird. — 1859
9. •
   Synonym of jack (“a small, typically white, ball used as the target ball in bowls”).
10. •
    (dialect, no longer used) Synonym of kittiwake (“either of two small gulls in the genus Rissa of the family Laridae; specifically (Ireland, UK), the black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)”).