Meaning of CATTY
| Pronunciation: | | 'katee
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- [n] any of various units of weight used in SE Asia (especially a Chinese measure equal to 500 grams)
- [adj] marked by or arising from malice; "a catty remark"
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| | Synonyms: | | bitchy, cattie, cattish, malevolent, malicious |
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| | See Also: | | weight, weight unit | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Cat"ty\, n. [Malay kat[=i]. See {Caddy}.]
An East Indian Weight of 11/3 pounds.
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| | Related Terms: | | abusive, active, back-biting, belittling, bitchy, brisk, calumniatory, calumnious, catlike, cattish, censorious, contemptuous, contumelious, defamatory, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory, derogative, derogatory, despiteful, detractory, disparaging, evil, felid, feline, fretful, furtive, hateful, kittenish, leonine, libelous, lionlike, lively, malevolent, minimizing, nagging, naggy, nimble, peevish, pejorative, pettish, petulant, querulous, rancorous, resentful, ridiculing, scandalous, scurrile, scurrilous, shrewish, slanderous, slighting, spiteful, sprightly, spry, tigerish, vicious, vilifying, vixenish, vixenly, volant, wicked, zippy |
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