catly

adj

Etymology

From cat + -ly. Compare catlike.

  1. derived from catta
  2. derived from cattus
  3. inherited from *kattuz
  4. inherited from *kattu
  5. inherited from catt
  6. inherited from cat
  7. suffixed as catly — “cat + ly

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to cats

    Of or pertaining to cats; feline.

    • Automatically, he scanned the premises for catly mischief, just as Nick Bamba scanned a vacated guest room for missing lightbulbs and dripping hot water faucets.
    • In the last few weeks he had appended his column ^([sic]) with a few words of catly wisdom from Cool Koko's Almanac.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for catly. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA