Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. the vagina; cit. 1719 is double entendre.

1719		in D’Urfey Pills to Purge Melancholy II 82: A pretty young Kitty, / She had that could Purr, / ’Twas gamesome and handsome, / And had a rare Furr.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
1929		Wesley Wilson & Harry McDaniels ‘Do It Right’ 🎵 The elephant said, when he swallowed the cat, / ‘Got a mouth full of kitty, and it’s tight like that.’ / Do it right, / He did it right!
c.1930		in Randolph & Legman Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) II 619: K stands for Kitty by whom I was burned.
c.1973		J. Thompson ‘Sunrise at Midnight’ in Fireworks (1988) 184: That tiny Hairy-ette who rests so cosily between my thighs is the most wondrous of kitty-kats (though given to snapping in the fashion of turtles).
1975		J. Roe The Same Old Grind 83: ‘Here, kitty, kitty! [...] Aw, purty pussy! [...] Fuzzy pussy, hairy pussy, great Gawd amighty!’.
1992		Bentley & Corbett Prison Sl. 61: Kitty The vagina.
1996		L. Pettiway Honey, Honey, Miss Thang 197: I had a relationship with a man and he was a flip-flop. He was a man ... well, he carry himself as a man, but I got the kitty. [...] And I’m a drag queen. I’m a transvestite.
2009		J. Stahl Pain Killers 176: Some big-ass ho [...] with a ham sandwich hanging out of her kitty.
2021		T. Swerdlow Straight Dope [ebook] I can always put it in the vein near my kitty. I flashed on the image of her [with] a needle in her inner thigh.

2. (US) a young, inexperienced girl.

1902		S.E. White Blazed Trail 125: She’s my daisy Sunday best-day girl, / And her front name stands for Kitty.
1920		F.S. Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise in Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald III (1960) 177: Why, you cold-blooded little kitty.
1979		E. Torres After Hours 55: Is he still chasin’ them young kitties?

3. a woman, esp. in a sexual context.

1914		Ade ‘The New Fable of the Wandering Boy’ in Ade’s Fables 127: The combination of Blind Pig, two playful Kitties up-stairs, and a lot of gay Dogs spread out on the upholstered Chairs, certainly proved to be some Menagerie.
1975		E. Torres Carlito’s Way 17: Many a kitty has gone for me.
1986		S. King It (1987) 159: We’ve got more than our share of old kitty-cats minding everybody’s business.
1993		S. King Dolores Claiborne 9: No high-steppin kitty like Vera Kiss-My-Back-Cheeks Donovan.
2018		Young M.A. ‘I Got the Bag’ 🎵 I already know what that kitty like, I’m just tryna see what that Bentley like.

4. used as a pejorative.

1932

‘R. Scully’ Scarlet Pansy 337: ‘No, kitty-cat,’ answered Fay [...] ‘What do you mean, you bitch?’ angrily spoke Miss Bull-Mawgan.

5. the equivalent of a jazz/beatnik cat n.⁵ (1)

1938		‘Idioms of the Present-Day American Negro’ in AS XIII:4 Dec. 314/1: ITTY BITTY KITTY FROM THE CITY. A country yokel who tries to be a cat.
1944		D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive 53: I’m a hip kitty from New Yawk City.
1953		L. Durst Jives of Dr. Hepcat (1989) 4: Lamp the Kitty with the King Kong physique, I most believe he’ll put the whammy on that horse skin.
1960		‘Lord Buckley’ Hiparama of the Classics 10: He was a carpenter kitty [...] Look at all you Cats and Kitties out there.
1971		L. Bangs in Psychotic Reactions (1988) 63: Red Guard kats an’ kitties would bop down in droves to laugh.

6. (US) a small cat n.³ (1)

1989

Murray & Murrell Lang. Sadomasochism.

7. (UK Black/drugs) a consumer of crack cocaine [play on cat n.⁵ (3)].

2015		M. Dargg ‘Upsuh’ 🎵 Yo Rends we're goin upsuh / The kittys they calling they wanting the flake.
2016		67 ‘5am Vamping’ 🎵 Kitties dem love my stones.

8. (US prison) HIV/AIDS [the itching and scratching it caused].

2023

Rayman & Blau Riker’s 265: They used to have sayings to tell you someone died [from HIV-related illnesses]. ‘She got the kitty. Why the kitty? ’Cause the bitch kept scratching’.