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Kathy

proper nouncommon in dialogue

A diminutive of the female given names Katherine or Kathleen, also used as a formal given name.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A diminutive of the female given names Katherine or Kathleen, also used as a formal given name.

Etymology

Etymology tree English Kath Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English Kathy From Kath + -y.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).