catty
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[ kat-ee ]
/ ˈkæt i /
adjective, cat·ti·er, cat·ti·est.
catlike; feline.
slyly malicious; spiteful: a catty gossip.
OTHER WORDS FROM catty
cat·ti·ly, adverb cat·ti·ness, nounWords nearby catty
cattleduffer,
cattleman,
cattleship,
cattleya,
catton,
catty,
catty-cornered,
cattywampus,
catullus,
catv,
catwalk
Example sentences from the Web for cattiness
It'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.
British Dictionary definitions for cattiness (1 of 2)
catty
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cattish
/ (ˈkætɪ) /
adjective -tier or -tiest
informal
spiteful
a catty remark
of or resembling a cat
Derived forms of catty
cattily or cattishly, adverb cattiness or cattishness, nounBritish Dictionary definitions for cattiness (2 of 2)
catty
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cattie
/ (ˈkætɪ) /
noun plural -ties
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
Word Origin for catty
C16: from Malay
kati