English

kikay kit

From Tagalog kikay + kit.

A compound of kikay + kit

Tagalog kikay ‘stylish woman’

English kikay

Middle Dutch kitte ‘a wooden vessel made of hooped staves’

Middle English kyt

English kit

Today it means

noun A soft case in which a woman's toiletries and cosmetics are stored.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / kikay kit