BETTY

Definition: BETTY

BETTY

Noun

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

2. 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.

3. A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

"BETTY" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "God is my oath".

Date "BETTY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1700. (references)

Literature

Slang

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Untruth

Myth, moonshine, bosh, all my eye and Betty Martin, mare's nest, farce.

Woman

Sissy, betty, cot betty, cotquean, henhussy, mollycoddle, muff, old woman.

Crosswords: BETTY

Good night, sweet Betty. (Mulholland Dr.; writing credit: David Lynch)

Let's see, we've got Schwarzenegger and Betty Boop (Look Who's Talking Too; writing credit: Amy Heckerling)

I am what I am, and I don't think Betty Ford takes vampires (Nick Knight; writing credit: Barney Cohen; James D. Parriott)

I like you Betty. (Caddyshack; writing credit: Brian Doyle-Murray; Harold Ramis)

I'd cook like Betty Crocker and look like Donna Reed (Little Shop of Horrors; writing credit: Charles B. Griffith; Howard Ashman)

Betty, is that Jimmy's ring you're wearing ("Leader of the Pack"; performing artist: The Shangri-Las)

Betty and Bob brought back blue balloons from the big bazaar. (references; author: unknown)

Betty better butter Brad's bread. (references; author: unknown)

Betty Baby (1971)

Cousin Betty (1970)

Betty Blue (1966)

I Betty pandrevetai (1961)

The Betty Hutton Show (1959)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• What Would Betty Do? How to Succeed at the Expense of Others in This World--and the Next (reference)

• Betty Crocker's Cookbook: Everything You Need to Know to Cook Today (Betty Crocker's Cookbook, 9th Ed) (reference)

• Betty Crocker's Easy Slow Cooker Dinner: Delicious Dinners the Whole Family Will Love (Betty Crocker) (reference)

• Betty Crocker's Cookbook/40th Anniversary Edition (reference)

• Captain Betty, Ahoy! (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Betty And Veronica Double Digest Magazine (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Betty Page: In Bondage (reference)

• Betty Boop, Vol. 2: Pre-code (reference)

• Betty Boop - The Definitive Collection, Vol. 1 (reference)

• Betty Boop and the Girls of Mischief (reference)

• The Best of Betty Boop (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Bathhouse Betty (reference)

• Bathhouse Betty [EXTRA TRACKS] [IMPORT] (reference)

• Betty Page: Danger Girl Burlesque Music (reference)

• Yo Soy Betty, la Fea (reference)

• Nurse Betty (2000 Film) [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• SIERRA ATTRACTIONS MasterCook Complete Suite Feat. Betty Crocker (Windows) (reference)

• MasterCook: The Complete Suite Featuring Betty Crocker's Recipes (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Betty and Gene Bradley, managers of the Knights Landing Harbor Apartments, CA., take a break in the quad of the complex. Credit: USDA.

Freddy Tetteh (l), Betty Overton and Evon Helena Sousa (r) prepare USDA commodity peaches at the T. C. Williams High School in Alexandria, VA., for the school lunch program. Credit: USDA.

Cow Creek Back Country Byway at Betty Creek (Resource Nature Area--RNA). Credit: Dave Mathweg.

Japanese Navy Type 1 land attack planes (later nicknamed "Betty") fly low through anti-aircraft gunfire during a torpedo attack on U.S. Navy ships maneuvering between Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the morning of 8 August 1942. Note that these planes are being flown without bomb-bay doors. Credit: NAVY.

Modeled by Betty Mayer, who was Assistant Superintendent of the Navy Nurse Corps in 1923-1930. Her cap bears the two gold stripes of her position. Seen here is the white indoor duty uniform (left), authorized 22 January 1923, and the same uniform with cape. Probably photographed prior to 1929. Credit: NAVY.

Benny and Betty were twins. Credit: Library of Congress.

Betty and Benny were made to sit on the front seat in church. Credit: Library of Congress.

Miss Betty Gordon of Louisville, Kentucky, being pulled on a rickshaw, which she tied to the back of a bicycle. Credit: Library of Congress.

Betty Compson, bust portrait, facing front] / Hirschfeld. Credit: Library of Congress.

Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Valve needles for blood transfusion donor bottles are inspected for defects by Betty McGrath, an employee of Baxter Laboratories, Glenview, Illinois. Miss McGrath was formerly a waitress; her sister is an Army nurse. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

My daughter Betty (who is now well married, and has children) was then at her needlework

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Grandma Betty may have been a teetotaler all her life, just taking a drink "to help her get to sleep" after her husband died--now she needs a couple of drinks to get through the day. These are common stories. (references)

Human Rights

Kenya

The December 2000 case of Betty Dindi and the January 2000 killing of Joseph Ndung'u Nyoike, which involved torture, beatings, or abuse by members of the security forces, were dismissed due to lack of evidence. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "BETTY": all my eye and Betty Martin ♦ Betty Friedan ♦ Betty Naomi Friedan ♦ bouncing betty ♦ brown Betty ♦ cot betty. Additional references.

Beginning with "BETTY": Betty-jean.

Hungarian

minden lében kanál (busybody, gad-fly, have a finger in every pie, meddler, meddlesome, Nosy Parker), kuktáskodó férfi, kíváncsiskodó férfi, bontórúd (crow, crow-bar, forcer), álkulcs (lock pick, pass key, pass-key, skeleton key). (various references)

Manx

Bessee. (various references)

Pig Latin

ettybay.(various references)

Russian 

of Elisabeth Бетти, бэтти. (various references)

Misspellings

"BETTY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: batry, Baty, bayti, beaty, beddy, Beety, Bentti, benty, berti, Besty, betay, Beti, betie, betry, betsy, bett, betta, Bettey, Betti, bettik, beuty, bitshy, Bitti, bittie, bity, Boetti, Boetto, Bofty, Botti, Brettsy, bretty, buety, buttie, Byett, getty, hetty, letty, metty, yetty. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: byte, yett.

-2 letters: bet, bey, bye, tet, tye, yet.

-3 letters: be, by, et, ye.

+2 letters: battery, buttery.

+3 letters: bitterly, butylate, butyrate, bystreet, subtlety, terabyte, ytterbia, ytterbic.

+4 letters: boycotted, boycotter, brittlely, butterfly, butylated, butylates, butyrates, bystreets, keybutton, stylobate, terabytes, yottabyte, ytterbias, ytterbium, zettabyte.

+5 letters: babysitter, baptistery, bathymetry, bayonetted, bestiality, botrytises, boycotters, detestably, keybuttons, metastably, stylobates, tenability, tuberosity, yottabytes, ytterbiums, zettabytes.