| 单词 | catty |
| 释义 | catty (once / 14155 pages) 1adj 2n Someone who's catty is mean and nasty. A catty student on a school bus might refuse to let another child sit beside him, saying, "You smell bad." If you act catty, you're malicious or snotty toward other people. The adjective is unfortunately used more often to describe females than males, but anyone who treats people nastily can be called catty. The word was originally cattish, with the same meaning — and earlier, it simply meant "pertaining to cats." WORD FAMILYcatty: cattier, catties, cattiest, cattily, cattiness, cattys+/cat: cats, catted, catting, cattish, catty/cattish: cattishly USAGE EXAMPLESI feel like since she announced she was pregnant she has been catty, mean and distant. Washington Post(Nov 22, 2016) After the victory Wednesday night, the White Sox, who won the World Series in 2005, offered their congratulations on Twitter, a little cattily. New York Times(Nov 03, 2016) Fast-forward two weeks and she’s been catty, rude and makes it a point to treat us as if we are in the way. Seattle Times(Sep 28, 2016) 1 adj marked by or arising from malice 2a catty remark Syn bitchy, cattish malicious having the nature of or resulting from malice n any of various units of weight used in southeastern Asia (especially a Chinese measure equal to 500 grams) Syn|Hyper cattie weight, weight unit a unit used to measure weight |
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