Katy

See also: katy, kąty, Kąty, and каты

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkeɪti/
  • Rhymes: -eɪti

Proper noun

Katy (plural Katys or Katies)

  1. A diminutive of the female given name Katherine, variant of Katie.
    • 1876 Elizabeth Prentiss: Stepping Heavenward, and Aunt Jane's Hero. Ward, Lock&Tyler 1876. page 87:
      The very first thing, however, Ernest annoyed me by calling me Katherine, though he knows I hate that name, and want to be called Katy as if I were a lovable person, as I certainly am (sometimes).
    • 1961, Rosemary Weir, “Television Centre”, in Tania Takes the Stage, London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., →OCLC, pages 88–89:
      Come along, you’re the first of the Katies. Now Katy was a tom-boy, […] Have you got a copy of the script?
    • 1975, Margery Fisher, “Katy Carr”, in Who’s Who in Children’s Books: A Treasury of the Familiar Characters of Childhood, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, page 166, column 1:
      Katy Carr serves her sentence with pain and her character changes as a result – or so the author implies; but the two Katys, the hoyden and the high-principled young lady, hardly seem to be the same girl.
  2. (with the) The Missouri–Kansas–Texas (MKT) Railroad.
    Alternative form: Katie
    When the Katy came through, the town’s entire economy and culture changed.
  3. A locale in the United States.
    1. A city in Texas; named for the MKT railroad.
    2. An unincorporated community in Missouri.
    3. An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
  4. A village in Subcarpathia, Poland.

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Noun

Katy (plural Katies)

  1. An apple cultivar from Sweden.

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