different between hetty vs betty

English

Alternative forms

• hettie

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?ti/
• Rhymes: -?ti
• Hyphenation: het?ty

Etymology

het +? -y

Noun

hetty (plural hetties)

1. (gay slang) A heterosexual.

Translations

Adjective

hetty (comparative hettier, superlative hettiest)

1. (gay slang) Heterosexual.

Translations

Anagrams

• tythe

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)

1. (slang, slightly pejorative) An attractive woman; a babe.
2. 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.

3. (archaic, derogatory) A man who performs tasks that traditionally belong to a woman.
4. (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