Catty

Definitions: Catty

Catty

Adjective

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

Noun

1. Any of various units of weight used in SE Asia (especially a Chinese measure equal to 500 grams).

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

Food & Agriculture

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Catty

Detraction

Adjective: detracting;Verb: defamatory, detractory, derogatory, deprecatory; catty; disparaging, libelous; scurrile, scurrilous; abusive; foul-spoken, foul-tongued, foul-mouthed; slanderous; calumnious, calumniatory; sarcastic, sardonic; sarcastic, satirical, cynical.

Crosswords: Catty

We just get a little catty sometimes. (Mulholland Dr.; writing credit: David Lynch)

Catty Cornered (1953)

Fin n' Catty (1943)

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Books

• Tatty Mae & Catty Mae (reference)

• The Big Scratch (A Manx Mc Catty Adventure) (reference)

• The comical adventures of Twm Shon Catty (Thomas Jones, Esq.), commonly known as the Welsh Robin Hood (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Beginning with "catty": catty-corner, catty-cornered.

Containing "catty": bias catacorner cata-cornered catercorner cater-cornered catty-corner catty-cornered diagonal kitty-corner kitty-cornered oblique skew skewed slanted.

Albanian

si mace (cattish), prej maceje (catlike, cattish), i lig (bad, basilisk, despiteful, diabolic, diabolical, evil, evil-minded, felon, godless, iniquitous, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, nefarious, perverse, sinister, spiteful, vicious, wicked), i keq (bad, bad tempered, baleful, blinking, bodeful, cancerous, cheesy, crook, dark, defective, dubious, evil, heavy, ill, ill disposed, ill natured, ill-conditioned, lousy, low-grade, malign, malignant, nasty, naughty, perverse, poor, punk, shady, shoddy, sinister, ugly, vicious, vile, wicked). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هراني (cat-like). (various references)

Bulgarian 

хитър (acute, arch, artful, calculating, clever, crafty, cunning, cute, deep, designing, disingenuous, dodgy, foxy, guileful, insidious, knowing, leery, long-headed, parlous, patent, pawky, politic, sharp, shifty, shrewd, sleek, slim, sly, smart, supple, wary, wide, wily, wordly-wise), котешки (catlike, cattish, feline), коварен (crafty, guileful, insidious, perfidious, snaky, subtle, trappy, underhand), злобен (bitchy, blackhearted, despiteful, dirty, envenomed, evil-minded, ill natured, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malignant, nasty, rancorous, sinister, spiteful, spleenful, squint eyed, venomous, vicious, virulent), ехиден (cattish). (various references)

Chinese 

�" , 斤 . (various references)

Czech

zlomyslný (bitchy, despiteful, malicious, malignant, mischievous, nasty, spiteful, unfriendly, unkind, vicious), jízlivý (acerbic, blistering, scathing, sneering, snide, spiteful, unkind, waspish, wry), falešný (bad, bogus, brummagem, double faced, dud, fake, false, false-hearted, forged, made up, mock, off-key, out of tune, phoney, phony, pseudo, put up, sham, spurious, two faced, wrong). (various references)

Farsi 

گربه صفت , شبیه گربه . (various references)

French

chatesque, méchant. (various references)

German

katzig, katzenhaft (cat-like, feline, slinkily, slinky), heimtückisch (dastardly, insidious, insidiously, malicious, maliciously, malignant, mischievous, nasty, perfidious, perfidiously, sneakily, sneaky, treacherous, vicious, wicked). (various references)

Greek 

ύπουλοσ (hangdog, insidious, insinuate, perfidious, shady, sneak, sneaker, sneaky, underhand, underhanded), βουκόλοσ (bucharoo, cow boy, herd, herdsman, neatherd, vaquero). (various references)

Hebrew 

ק� טר� י (annoying, provocative, quarrelsome, spiteful, teasing, vexing). (various references)

Hungarian

macskaszerû (catlike, cattish, kittenish), gonosz (bad, black, black-hearted, evil, fell, felon, felonious, ill, iniquitous, maleficent, malicious, malignant, mischievous, nefarious, rancorous, shabby, shrewd, spiteful, ungodly, vicious, viperous, wicked). (various references)

Indonesian

penuh kebencian. (various references)

Italian

malizioso (arch, cunning, malicious, maliciously, mischievous, puckish, wicked, wily), malicioso, dispettoso (spiteful). (various references)

Manx

granganagh (cantankerous, captious, cattish, 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

attycay

Portuguese

com insinuações, caluniador (backbiter, calumniator, calumniatory, detractor, slanderer, slanderous), calúnia (aspersion, backbite, calumniation, calumny, libel, obloquy, scandal, slander, vilification), malicioso (arch, bland, despiteful, devilish, evil-minded, guileful, malicious, mischievous, mordacious, nasty, parmesan, pawky, piquant, puckish, salty, tricksy, vicious, wanton). (various references)

Romanian

viclean (arch, artful, astute, cagey, catlike, crafty, cunning, cute, deceitful, downy, foxy, guileful, leery, pawky, quick-witted, shifty, sly, slyly, subtle, wily), rãutãcios (elfish, jeering, jeeringly, malicious, malignant, mischievous, spiteful, vicious, wicked), felin (catlike, cattish, feline, graceful). (various references)

Russian 

язвительный (acrimonious, biting, epigrammatic, incisive, punchy, snide, stinging, waspish), хитрый (artful, astute, cagey, cattish, crafty, cunning, disingenuous, insidious, leery, pawky, rat-face, serpentine, sleeky, sly, tricky, vulpine, wily), коварный (conniving, crafty, designing, guileful, insidious, jesuitic, jesuitical, subtle, treacherous, vulpine, wily), злобный (bitchy, blackhearted, despiteful, envenomed, evil-minded, ill natured, ill-natured, malicious, malign, nasty, ornery, rancorous, spiteful, spleenful, spleenish, venomous, viperous, virulent). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

maliciozan (malicious), mačkast (cattish). (various references)

Spanish

malicioso (arch, cattish, ill natured, insidious, invidious, knowing, malicious, mean, mischievous, puckish, roguish, sly, wicked), malicia (archness, cattiness, malice, maliciousness, mischief, mischievousness, naughtiness, slyness, wickedness), gatuno. (various references)

Swedish

kattlik (cattish, feline), giftig (mephitic, poisonous, toxic, venomous, viperous, virulent, vitriolic, waspish), elak (angry, bad, blackhearted, cantankerous, cattish, caustic, dark, evel, evil, horrid, ill, ill natured, malicious, malignant, mean, nasty, naughty, troublesome, ugly, unkind, venomous, wicked). (various references)

Turkish

sinsi (cattish, furtive, gloating, hole-and-corner, insidious, slinky, sly, snaky, sneaking, sneaky, underarm, underhand), kurnaz (arch, artful, astute, cagey, calculating, canny, cattish, 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, cattish, feline), hain (betrayer, cattish, 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)

Vietnamese 

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

Welsh

cathaidd. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "catty": scatty. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Catty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acttm, acty, Atty, Canty, caoty, carty, casty, catay, Catey, cathy, cati, Catie, Catsy, catt, Catta, catte, Catti, Cattin, catv, caty, cauty, cett, cette, cetyl, Cgatt, Cgattc, clatt, Cmtte, Cottey, cotty, Cty, katt, kat-ta, katti, kattie, Mcwattie, tacty, Ucatt. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: tact.

-2 letters: act, att, cat, cay, tat.

-3 letters: at, ay, ta, ya.

+1 letter: chatty, scatty.

+2 letters: cattery, cattily, tacitly, testacy, thatchy.

+3 letters: activity, anticity, atrocity, catalyst, cattleya, chastity, chattery, chattily, citatory, clattery, cottagey, cryostat, cytaster, sanctity, staticky, tenacity, trachyte, triptyca, typecast.

+4 letters: acetylate, actuality, astrocyte, athrocyte, autolytic, candytuft, captivity, catalysts, catalytic, cattleyas, certainty, chatoyant, contrasty, cryostats, cytasters, ecthymata, facticity, intestacy, statocyst, syntactic, systaltic, tactfully, tactilely, tactility, tactually, tetrarchy, trachytes, trachytic, tractably, triptycas, typecasts.

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