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kit-cat

noun

kit-cat is a noun meaning “A short portrait, measuring 28 or 29 by 36 inches, less than half-length, but including the hands” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-I-T-C-A-T. The plural of kit-cat is kit-cats.

What does kit-cat mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A short portrait, measuring 28 or 29 by 36 inches, less than half-length, but including the hands.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of kit-cat

  • kit-cats plural
  • kitcat
  • kitkat
  • kit-kat

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Words people confuse with kit-cat

Also written: kit-kat, kitkat.

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Where does kit-cat come from?

So called because the size was adopted by Sir Godfrey Kneller for the portraits he painted of the members of London's 18th-century Kit-Cat Club, said to have been named after innkeeper Christopher Catt.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).