See Kit Kat on Wiktionary
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{ "etymology_text": "Brand name. Originally trademarked by the Rowntree's company in 1911. Apparently named after the Kit-Cat Club, which got its name from a local pastry chef, Christopher Catt/Catling (sources differ on the surname), who was nicknamed “Kit” and supplied the club with meat pies that he called “Kit-Cats”.", "forms": [ { "form": "Kit Kats", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "nolinkhead": "1" }, "expansion": "Kit Kat (plural Kit Kats)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nouns", "English terms with quotations", "English trademarks", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "en:Foods", "en:Sweets" ], "examples": [ { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 132, 140 ] ], "ref": "2013, Iris Smyles, Iris Has Free Time, Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, →ISBN, page 11:", "text": "I looked around, visited a few more booths, and filled the free laminated folder I got from Scholastic with pencil erasers and tiny Kit Kats. Heavy with “gifts,” I decided to head home.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A chocolate-covered wafer bar confection produced by Nestlé and Hershey." ], "links": [ [ "chocolate", "chocolate" ], [ "wafer", "wafer" ], [ "confection", "confection" ] ], "wikipedia": [ "Kit Kat", "Kit-Cat Club", "Rowntree's" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Kit Kat.wav", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/35/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-Kit_Kat.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-Kit_Kat.wav.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/35/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-Kit_Kat.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-Kit_Kat.wav.ogg" } ], "word": "Kit Kat" }
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