kitten

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: kit=ten

CIDE DICTIONARY

kitten, n. [OE. kiton, a dim. of cat; cf. G. kitze a young cat, also a female cat, and F. chaton, dim. of chat cat, also E. kitling. See Cat.].

 A young cat.  [1913 Webster]

kitten, v. t. & i. 

 To bring forth young, as a cat; to bring forth, as kittens.  Shak. H. Spencer.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

kitten, n. & v.
--n.
1 a young cat.
2 a young ferret etc.
--v.intr. & tr. (of a cat etc.) give birth or give birth to.

Idiom

have kittens Brit. colloq. be extremely upset, anxious, or nervous.

Etymology

ME kito(u)n, ketoun f. OF chitoun, chetoun dimin. of chat CAT

THESAURUS

kitten

Cheshire cat, Chinchilla cat, Maltese cat, alley cat, bairn, be confined, bear, bear a child, bear young, birdling, blue cat, calf, calico cat, calve, cast, cat, catling, cherub, chick, chickling, chicky, child, chit, colt, cub, darling, dogie, drop, duckling, farrow, fawn, feline, fledgling, foal, fryer, gib, gib-cat, give birth, gosling, grimalkin, have, have a baby, have young, house cat, innocent, kid, kit, kitling, kitty, kitty-cat, labor, lamb, lambkin, lie in, litter, little bugger, little fellow, little guy, little innocent, little one, little tad, little tot, mite, mouser, nest, nestling, nipper, offspring, peewee, piglet, pigling, polliwog, pullet, pup, puppy, puss, pussy, pussycat, shaver, shoat, silver cat, tabby, tabby cat, tad, tadpole, throw, tiger cat, tom, tomcat, tortoise-shell cat, tot, travail, weaner, wee tot, whelp, yean, yeanling

ROGET THESAURUS

kitten

Infant

N infant, babe, baby, babe in arms, nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling, papoose, bambino, kid, vagitus, child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin, bantling, bratling, elf, youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master, scion, sap, seedling, tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow, codlin, codling, foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten, lamb, lambkin, aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle, girl, lass, lassie, wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle, maid, maiden, virgin, hoyden, infantine, infantile, puerile, boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish, baby, newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow, in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in leading strings, at the breast, in one's teens.

Production

VB produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture, weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel, build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up, establish, constitute, compose, organize, institute, achieve, accomplish, flower, bear fruit, fructify, teem, ean, yean, farrow, drop, pup, kitten, kindle, bear, lay, whelp, bring forth, give birth to, lie in, be brought to bed of, evolve, pullulate, usher into the world, make productive, create, beget, get, generate, fecundate, impregnate, procreate, progenerate, propagate, engender, bring into being, call into being, bring into existence, breed, hatch, develop, bring up, induce, superinduce, suscitate, cause, acquire.