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kittenish

adj

Etymology

From kitten + -ish.

  1. derived from *kitoun✻
  2. inherited from kitoun
  3. suffixed as kittenish — “kitten + ish”

Definitions

  1. Having the qualities or likeness of a kitten.

    • She was kittenish in her manners, wearing generally an air of soft and fluffy innocence.
    • Sleeping, Myra appeared cuddly, kittenish. Girls, Gordon thought to himself. Girls can really drive you crazy.

  2. Playful, sometimes with overtones of female sexuality.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for kittenish. 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