Cattish

Definition: Cattish

Cattish

Adjective

1. Marked by or arising from malice; "a catty remark".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cattish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1792. (references)

Synonyms: Cattish

Albanian

si mace (catty), prej maceje (catlike, catty). (various references)

Bulgarian 

котешки (catlike, catty, feline), ехиден (catty). (various references)

Czech

koèièí (catlike). (various references)

German

falsch (bogus, cattishly, counterfeit, deceitful, erroneous, fake, false, falsely, fictitious, forged, imitation, improper, incorrect, incorrectly, insincere, loaded, mistaken, nonfactual, off-key, phoney, phony, pseudo, put on, sham, spurious, unsounded, untrue, wrong, wrongly). (various references)

Greek 

γατοειδήσ (catlike, feline, kittenish). (various references)

Hebrew 

חתולי (feline). (various references)

Hungarian

macskaszerû (catlike, catty, kittenish). (various references)

Indonesian

seperti kucing. (various references)

Manx

granganagh (cantankerous, captious, catty, churlish, crabbed, crabbed of person, crabby, cross, cross annoyed, cynical, disagreeable, fractious, fretful, grumpy, ill-humoured, ill-natured, ill-tempered, niggly person, peevish, snappy). (various references)

Pig Latin

attishcay.(various references)

Portuguese

circunspeto (cautious, circumspect, circumspective, deliberate, discreet, reserved, serious, thought-out, vigilant, wary, wise), circunspecto (cautious, circumspect, circumspective, deliberate, discreet, reserved, serious, thought-out, vigilant, wary, wise), traiçoeiro (base-minded, deceitful, double-hearted, insidious, slippery, slippy, snaky, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, treasonous, vulpine), prudente (advised, canny, careful, cautious, chary, circumspective, discreet, far-seeing, far-sighted, forehanded, heedful, long-sighted, non-committal, politic, provident, prudent, prudential, reasonable, sagacious, sage, sensible, sound, wary, well-advised, well-judged, wise, wizard), malévolo (candle-wick, maleficent, nasty, spiteful, wicked), hábil (able, adroit, artful, canny, capable, circumspective, clever, cunning, deft, dexterous, diplomatic, knacky, light-handed, neat, neat-handed, practised, skilful, skilled, skillful), fingido (artificial, assumed, double, faked, false, feigned, forced, insincere, make-believe, pretended, sham, supposititious), felino (catlike, feline, kittenish), equilibrado (canny, circumspective, decent, even, good-tempered, levelheaded). (various references)

Romanian

prefãcut (affected, assumed, false, falsified, forged, guileful, histrionic, hollow-hearted, hypocritical, insidious, mock, panting, pecksniffian, pharisaical, pharisee, pretender, seeming, sham, squeamish, treacherous), pisicesc (cat's), felin (catlike, catty, feline, graceful). (various references)

Russian 

хитрый (artful, astute, cagey, catty, crafty, cunning, disingenuous, insidious, leery, pawky, rat-face, serpentine, sleeky, sly, tricky, vulpine, wily), кошачий (catlike, cat-like, feline), злой (bad tempered, bad-tempered, blackhearted, black-hearted, evil, evil-minded, fractious, ill disposed, ill natured, ornery, puckish, scathing, squinteyed, surly, unkind, vicious, vixenish). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

mačkast (catty). (various references)

Spanish

malicioso (arch, catty, ill natured, insidious, invidious, knowing, malicious, mean, mischievous, puckish, roguish, sly, wicked). (various references)

Swedish

kattlik (catty, feline), elak (angry, bad, blackhearted, cantankerous, catty, caustic, dark, evel, evil, horrid, ill, ill natured, malicious, malignant, mean, nasty, naughty, troublesome, ugly, unkind, venomous, wicked). (various references)

Turkish

sinsi (catty, furtive, gloating, hole-and-corner, insidious, slinky, sly, snaky, sneaking, sneaky, underarm, underhand), kurnaz (arch, artful, astute, cagey, calculating, canny, catty, coon, crafty, cunning, cute, designing, dodger, dodgy, downy, feline, Fox, foxy, hard boiled, heady, knowing, leery, politic, quirky, roguish, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slim, sly, sly old fox, slyboots, smart, subtile, tricky, vulpine, weasel, wheeler dealer, wide awake, wily, wise guy), kedi gibi (catlike, catty, feline), hain (betrayer, catty, deceitful, dingo, disloyal, faithless, false, false-hearted, foul, insidious, Judas, malicious, nefarious, perfidious, rat, Ratter, renegade, scoundrel, scoundrelly, serpent, snaky, traitor, traitorous, treacherous, ungrateful, villain, viperish, viperous, wicked). (various references)

Ukrainian

схожий на кота (cat-like), уїдливий (acid, acrid, acrimonious, arrowy, barbed, biting, carping, caustic, epigrammatic, exceptive, fault finding, mordacious, mordant, pointed, smart, spiteful, waspish, waspy), скрадливий (furtive), хитрий (arch, argute, artful, astute, canny, crafty, cunning, devious, doleful, enterprising, foxy, hard-headed, leery, pawky, shifting, shrewd, sly, tricky, wide, wily), котячий (cat-like, feline), недоброзичливий (blackhearted, carping, cursed, envious, evil-minded, ill-affected, malevolent, nasty), злісний (baleful, cammed, cankered, despiteful, diabolic, diabolical, evil-minded, inveterate, malicious, malign, malignant, unholy, venomous, virulent, wrathy), підступний (astute, crafty, cunning, dastardly, guileful, insidious, jesuitic, jesuitical, serpentine, skittish, sly, treacherous, vulpine, wily, witty). (various references)

Vietnamese 

như mèo nham hiểm (catty), nanh ác (catty, snaky). (various references)

Misspellings

"Cattish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cattus, Chataibh, cuntish, kittish, krautish. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tachist.

-1 letter: attics, static, stitch.

-2 letters: aitch, attic, chats, chias, chits, saith, scatt, stich, tachs, tacit, tacts.

-3 letters: acts, aits, asci, cash, cast, cats, chat, chia, chis, chit, cist, hast, hats, hist, hits, ichs, itch, sati, scat, sith, stat, tach, tact, tats, that, this, tics.

-4 letters: act, ais, ait, ash, att, cat, chi, cis, has, hat.

+1 letter: chartist, chastity, tachiste, tachists.

+2 letters: aesthetic, asthmatic, atheistic, athletics, catchiest, catechist, catfights, chapattis, chartists, chattiest, chitchats, patchiest, tachistes, theatrics, thematics.

+3 letters: aesthetics, anesthetic, architects, arthritics, asthmatics, backstitch, catechists, cathartics, chapatties, chastities, chattiness, hemostatic, hypostatic, matchstick, metaethics, rheostatic, snatchiest, starchiest, stochastic, thatchiest, theistical, tracheitis, unchastity, wristwatch.

+4 letters: aesthetical, anaesthetic, anesthetics, anthracites, arithmetics, atheistical, athleticism, catechistic, cholestatic, cohabitants, esthetician, fianchettos, gastrotrich, haircutters, hematocrits, hemostatics, homeostatic, hydrostatic, hyperstatic, latchstring, matchsticks, mathematics, orthostatic, osteopathic, pantheistic, parachutist, paresthetic, photostatic, scratchiest, stenobathic, sympathetic, tetrarchies, theatricals, trichromats, unaesthetic, witchcrafts.