gata
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of gata
From Latin American Spanish (Cuba, Puerto Rico), Spanish: “cat,” from Late Latin catta cat ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Nothing says "good luck in the new year" like bread, according to some Armenian families, who bake a large, flat loaf known as tarehats, darin, or gata.
From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2020
To say nothing of his dignified and truthful character as a man, he belongs, as a thinker and a writer, to a far higher class than this enfant gate du monde qu'il gata.
From English literary criticism by Various
Sco. ae, one, + O. N. gata literally "ae way," one way.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom
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