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▪ I. Kit, n.4|kɪt|
1. Abbreviated pet form of the name Catherine or Kate (cf. kitty1), used esp. in the obs. phr. Kit has lost her key.
1533More Apol. xxiv. Wks. 888/2 Certaine letters whiche some of the brethrene let fall of late, and lost theim of likelyhedde as some good kitte leseth her kayes. 1548W. Patten Exp. Scotl. Pref. in Eng. Garner III. 71 Oblations and offerings..for deliverance of bad husbands, for a sick cow, to keep down the belly, and when ‘Kit had lost her key’.
†2. A light woman. Obs. (Cf. kittock.)
a1577Gascoigne Dan Bartholomew Wks. (1587) 67 Kits of Cressides kinde. 1600Barton Pasquil's Fooles-cappe (1879) 21 Such foolish Kittes of such a skittish kinde, In Bridewell booke are euery where to finde.
▪ II. Kit, n.5
[abbr. of Christopher.]
In phr. Kit with the canstick or candlestick = Jack-o'-lantern.
1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. vii. xv. (1886) 122 They have so fraied us with bull beggars, spirits, witches, urchens, elves, hags,..kit with the cansticke. [a1626Middleton Witch i. ii.] |