kitcat Meaning, Definition & Usage

Kit"cat` adjective

Definitions

1. Designating a club in London, to which Addison and Steele belonged; -- so called from Christopher Cat, a pastry cook, who served the club with mutton pies.
2. Designating a canvas used for portraits of a peculiar size, viz., twenty-right or twenty-nine inches by thirtysix; -- so called because that size was adopted by Sir Godfrey Kneller for the portraits he painted of the members of the Kitcal Club. Fairholt.

Kit"cat` noun

Definitions

1. A game played by striking with a stick small piece of wood, called a cat, shaped like two coned united at their bases; tipcat. Cotton.