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 AILUROPHILE...One who loves cats...ETYMOLOGY: Greek ailouros, cat + –phile. The term comes from Herodotus, the Greek historian who called the cats that he found in Egypt "ailuroi" - tail wavers. |
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Feline::of or belonging to the family Felidae, which includes domestic cats. Catty: People exchange slurs and snide remarks about someone and someone interjects with, "meow!" Translation...catty. The dictionary has several different meaning for the word catty, such as stealthy, aloof or agile. The usual meaning is, "slyly spiteful." A cat has no ability to gossip or criticize! |
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Kitttenish: Kittens really are playful and frisky, hence the word...kittenish. |
| Scaredy Cat: A dog is more likely to attack something bigger than itself than a cat is. A cat will attack things smaller than itself such as a mouse, but if faced with a bigger attacker, they don't lie down and whimper. A cat's view is more pragmatic, that is: kill small things, flee the big if possible, fight off the big ones if necessary and do gown fighting! |
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Caterwaul:
To
cry or screech
like a cat
in heat
To
make a shrill,
discordant
sound
To
have a noisy
argument
cat·er·waul
This expression dates from the mid 19th century and is associated with the story of Puss in Boots a European literary fairy tale about a cat who uses trickery and deceit to gain power, wealth, and the hand of a princess in marriage for his penniless and low-born master. |
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Clowder -
A group of cats or other small felines. Catwalk: a narrow walkway, especially one high above the surrounding area, used to provide access or allow workers to stand or move, as over the stage in a theater, outside the roadway of a bridge, along the top of a railroad car, etc.
Cat-and-Mouse:
This old expression has
a couple of meanings. Both are similar. Tormenting something before
defeating it-the idea that cats play with their prey before killing it and
pursuit with near capture and escapes before the final capture-as in "she
liked to read cat-and-mouse mystery novels." |
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Pussycat: A female cat is technically a queen and not a pussycat. In early times, people referred to any cat as a pussycat. With the advance of vulgarity, people began to connect pussycat to mean female cat. Linguists tell us that the old Germanic word puss referred to the female body's sexual area, so the word hasn't changed much. It is anyone's guess how the word came to be connected with cats! Let the cat out of the bag: To reveal a secret. In medieval times, piglets were taken to markets and sold in sacks. Occasionally, an unscrupulous vendor would try to pass off a cat or puppy in a bag as a piglet. If the cat escaped in view of the potential buyer, so did the secret. Kitty-corner or catty-corner: Comes from catercorner, the old dialectical term for diagonal, which itself comes from the French word "quatre," or four.Raining cats and dogs : A driving rain. This ever-popular expression first appeared in print in 1653. ("It shall raine ... dogs and polecats.") No one has a definitive explanation for where it comes from, but everyone has a theory.Not enough room to swing a cat : A crowded, tight space. This phrase possibly deals with cruelty to humans, not animals. Theories say it refers to the cat o’ nine tails, a pronged whip used for punishment on boats at sea. There wasn’t enough room below decks to perform the punishment, so it was always done on the deck. The phrase could also relate to the use of cats that were swung into the air as targets for archers.Cat Nights : This term harks back to the days when people believed in witches. An old Irish legend says that a witch could turn into a cat and regain herself eight times, but on the ninth time, in August, she couldn’t change back, hence the saying: “A cat has nine lives.” Because August is a “yowly” time for cats, this may have prompted the speculation about witches on the prowl in the first place.
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