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noun

Betty n.

A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open. (Written also bettee) "The powerful betty, or the artful picklock."

A name of contempt given to a man who interferes with the duties of women in a household, or who occupies himself with womanish matters.

A pear-shaped bottle covered round with straw, in which olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; called by chemists a Florence flask. (U. S.)

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Etymology of 'Betty'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Betty" Quotes from Famous Books

... took up as lawful spoils. Then Kate of the Mill tumbled unfortunately over a tombstone, which catching hold of her ungartered stocking, inverted the order of nature, and gave her heels the superiority to her head. Betty Pippin, with young Roger her lover, fell both to the ground; where, O Perverse Fate! she salutes the earth, ...

— A History of English Prose Fiction • Bayard Tuckerman

... man has a right to sit as he pleases in his own house," resumed the traveller, with warmth; "and an inn is his own house, I guess, so long as he pays his score. Betty, my dear." ...

— My Novel, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... a mother?" she asked her cousin, Betty Windsor, one day as they were driving slowly down the long line of staring faces that filled the Park at five o'clock on warm afternoons ...

— The Green Carnation • Robert Smythe Hichens

... ii, 4aabb, 17ca: Orphaned at five years of age and reared by his uncle, MacAfee becomes wayward; later he marries, but falls in love with Betty Stout, poisons his wife, and speaks this confession under sentence ...

— A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs • Hubert G. Shearin

... word, Betty," cried he, "you must do your best to-night; for the chicken is for the finest-looking fellow you ever set eyes on. By Jove, I believe him to be some Russian nobleman; perhaps the great Suwarrow himself! and he speaks English as well as I ...

— Thaddeus of Warsaw • Jane Porter

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