Catty

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Catty \Cat"ty\, n. [Malay kat[imac]. See {Caddy}.]
     An East Indian Weight of 11/3 pounds.
     [1913 Webster] catty-corner

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  catty
       adj : marked by or arising from malice; "a catty remark" [syn: {bitchy},
              {cattish}]
       n : any of various units of weight used in southeastern Asia
           (especially a Chinese measure equal to 500 grams) [syn: {cattie}]
       [also: {cattiest}, {cattier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  65 Moby Thesaurus words for "catty":
     abusive, active, back-biting, belittling, bitchy, brisk,
     calumniatory, calumnious, catlike, cattish, censorious,
     contemptuous, contumelious, defamatory, deprecatory, depreciative,
     depreciatory, derisive, derisory, derogative, derogatory,
     despiteful, detractory, disparaging, evil, felid, feline, fretful,
     furtive, hateful, kittenish, leonine, libelous, lionlike, lively,
     malevolent, minimizing, nagging, naggy, nimble, peevish,
     pejorative, pettish, petulant, querulous, rancorous, resentful,
     ridiculing, scandalous, scurrile, scurrilous, shrewish, slanderous,
     slighting, spiteful, sprightly, spry, tigerish, vicious, vilifying,
     vixenish, vixenly, volant, wicked, zippy