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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
kittee is a noun meaning "a form of torture used by American Indians in which sensitive parts of the body were squeezed between two boards until the victim could bear no more". It carries one recorded sense.
a form of torture used by American Indians in which sensitive parts of the body were squeezed between two boards until the victim could bear no more
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for kittee come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.