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betty
English
Alternative forms
- (bar used by thieves to open doors): bettee
- (attractive woman): Betty
Etymology
From Betty (“nickname for "Elizabeth"”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?ti/
- Rhymes: -?ti
Noun
betty (plural betties)
- (slang, slightly pejorative) An attractive woman; a babe.
- A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open; a jemmy.
- 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull
- The powerful betty, or the artful picklock.
- 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull
- (archaic, derogatory) A man who performs tasks that traditionally belong to a woman.
- (US, archaic) A pear-shaped bottle covered with straw, in which olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; a Florence flask.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bartlett to this entry?)
Synonyms
- (attractive woman): see Thesaurus:beautiful woman
- (man who performs a woman's tasks): cot-betty, cot-quean, henhussy
Hyponyms
- (man who performs a woman's tasks): househusband
Anagrams
- TBYTE, tbyte
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