kittee | (noun) a form of torture used by American Indians in which sensitive parts of the body were squeezed between two boards until the victim could bear no more | - |
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kitten | (noun) young domestic cat | Synonyms: kitty |
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(verb) give birth to kittens | - |
kittenish | (adjective) playful like a lively kitten | Synonyms: frisky |
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kittiwake | (noun) small pearl-grey gull of northern regions; nests on cliffs and has a rudimentary hind toe | - |
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kittul | (noun) fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago | Synonyms: Caryota urens, jaggery palm, kitul, kitul tree, toddy palm, wine palm |
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kitty | (noun) informal terms referring to a domestic cat | Synonyms: kitty-cat, puss, pussy, pussycat |
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(noun) young domestic cat | Synonyms: kitten |
(noun) the combined stakes of the betters | Synonyms: pool |
(noun) the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker) | Synonyms: jackpot, pot |
skitter | (verb) twitch the hook of a fishing line through or along the surface of water | - |
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(verb) cause to skip over a surface | Synonyms: skim, skip |
(verb) to move about or proceed hurriedly | Synonyms: scamper, scurry, scuttle |
(verb) glide easily along a surface | - |
skittish | (adjective) unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) | Synonyms: flighty, nervous, spooky |
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skittishly | (adverb) in a skittish manner | - |
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skittishness | (noun) characterized by nervousness and quickness to take fright | Synonyms: restiveness |
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skittle | (noun) a bowling pin of the type used in playing ninepins or (in England) skittles | Synonyms: ninepin, skittle pin |
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(verb) play skittles | - |
skittles | (noun) a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins | Synonyms: ninepins |
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