Katy

plural Katys · plural Katies · alternative Catie · alternative Caty · alternative Katie

1. countableuncountableA diminutive of the female given name Katherine, variant of Katie.

   Come along, you’re the first of the Katies. Now Katy was a tom-boy, […] Have you got a copy of the script?

   1961, Rosemary Weir, “Television Centre”, in Tania Takes the Stage, London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., →OCLC, pages 88–89

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   The very first thing, however, Ernest annoyed me by calling me Katherine, though he knows I hate that name, and want to be called Katy as if I were a lovable person, as I certainly am (sometimes).

   1876 Elizabeth Prentiss: Stepping Heavenward, and Aunt Jane's Hero. Ward, Lock&Tyler 1876. page 87

   Katy Carr serves her sentence with pain and her character changes as a result – or so the author implies; but the two Katys, the hoyden and the high-principled young lady, hardly seem to be the same girl.

   1975, Margery Fisher, “Katy Carr”, in Who’s Who in Children’s Books: A Treasury of the Familiar Characters of Childhood, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, page 166, column 1

2. countableuncountableThe Missouri–Kansas–Texas (MKT) Railroad.

   When the Katy came through, the town’s entire economy and culture changed.

3. A locale in the United States.
   1. countableuncountableA city at the tripoint of Harris County, Fort Bend County and Waller County, Texas; named for the MKT railroad.
   2. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Missouri.
   3. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in West Virginia.
4. countableuncountableA village in Subcarpathia, Poland.

plural Katies · alternative Catie · alternative Caty · alternative Katie

1. An apple cultivar from Sweden.