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September 27, 2006

Vishy's Indian English Dictionary: kitty party

kitty party./ki·tee·PAH·tee/. A party where guests contribute money to a common pool, which is all given away to the guest who wins a drawing that happens at the party. Usually held on lazy afternoons and attended by Indian housewives, almost necessarily embellished with the attendant socializing and gossiping opportunities.

In fact, as I was growing up, I always thought of gossip as the primary function of these get-togethers. Stardust magazine at the time had a celebrity gossip column called "Nita's Natter", with a sultry cigarette-smoking cat as its icon. When kitty party mingled with this image in my head, I would imagine a coterie of Indian housewives transformed into gossiping cats at these social events. Sadly, as I later found out, the word kitty in this phrase has nothing to do with cats. It is more closely related to the table's prize in a game of poker, also called kitty by some (Why? The explanations don't seem entirely convincing to me.).

So now you know of one way Desperate Housewives in India amuse themselves.

Posted by Vishy at September 27, 2006 10:17 PM

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