catty
1catlike; feline.
slyly malicious; spiteful: a catty gossip.
Origin of catty
1Other words for catty
Other words from catty
- cat·ti·ly, adverb
- cat·ti·ness, noun
Other definitions for catty (2 of 2)
(in China and southeast Asia) a weight equal to about 1½ pounds (680 grams) avoirdupois.
Origin of catty
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How to use catty in a sentence
She knows, for example, that in the north side of Chicago, there are pharmacies practically catty-corner to each other—which is great for those who live there.
How cities can fill the gaps in Covid-19 vaccine communication | Katherine Ellen Foley | January 25, 2021 | QuartzWhen Ben Sherwood, the new head of Disney/ABC TV Group, joined the network as its news chief in 2010, much cattiness ensued.
Privilege and Power: The Rise and Rise of Ben Sherwood | Lloyd Grove | March 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt's hard, of course, to get too worked up about anyone's cattiness towards Coulter, but Baron is pretty consistently vicious.
New Jersey evokes a more suburban, strip-mall variety of cattiness, with press-on nails in place of claws.
Mrs. Vandervelde was not above the innate feminine cattiness.
The Purple Heights | Marie Conway Oemler
British Dictionary definitions for catty (1 of 2)
cattish
/ (ˈkætɪ) /
informal spiteful: a catty remark
of or resembling a cat
Derived forms of catty
- cattily or cattishly, adverb
- cattiness or cattishness, noun
British Dictionary definitions for catty (2 of 2)
cattie
/ (ˈkætɪ) /
a unit of weight, used esp in E Asia, traditionally equal to about one and a half pounds but formalized as 0.5 kg in mainland China, 0.6 kg in Taiwan and Thailand, and about 0.605 kg in Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore: (Mandarin) Chinese name:: jin
Origin of catty
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