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Definition: Kittenish |
KittenishAdjective1. Playful like a lively kitten. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "kittenish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | It will amply return your affection and interest, and even in its sedate maturity retain a great deal of its -quality. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: KittenishSynonym: frisky (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Infant | Adjective: infantine, infantile; puerile; boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish; baby; newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Fable of the Kittenish Super-Anns and the World-Weary Snipes (1916) | |
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| "Kittenish" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Kittenish" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 80% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 20% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "kittenish": sex-kittenish. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
kittenish | 9 |
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| Language | Translations for "kittenish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | si kotele. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مرح (airiness, airy, be merry, blithe, breezy, bright, buoyancy, buoyant, cheerful, cheerfulness, cheering, chirpy, exult, facetious, festive, fresh, frisk, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, fun, gaiety, gay, glee, gleeful, have fun, hilarious, hilarity, jaunty, jocose, jocosity, jocund, jolly, jovial, joviality, joy, joyful, joyfulness, joyous, lark, light, lightsome, lively, make merry, merriment, merry, merry making, mirth, mirthful, perkiness, perky, playful, playfulness, playing, rejoice, rollick, romp, sportive, sprightly, sunny, vivacious, vivacity, what fun, winsome), هريرانى كالهرة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | кокетлив (skittish), като коте, закачлив (chaffy, facetious, jesting, larky, perky, playful, pleasant, roguish, skittish, sly, troublesome, waggish), игрив (blithe, coltish, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, gamesome, gay, jocose, mischievous, monkeyish, pert, playful, skittish, sportful, sportive, tricksy, wanton). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | hravý (airy, gamesome, playful, sportful, sportive, tricksy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مثل بچه گربه . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | de chaton, chatesque. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kokett (coquettish, flirtatious, skittish, skittishly), verspielt (dainty, playful, pretty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γατοειδήσ (catlike, cattish, feline), παιχνιδιάρικοσ (playful, tricksy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | macskaszerû (catlike, cattish, catty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | simile a un gattino. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | pishinagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ittenishkay vivo (above ground, active, acute, adroit, agile, alert, alive, argute, bobbish, bouncing, brainy, breezy, bright, brisk, buoyant, chirpy, clear-sighted, clinking, coltish, Cork, Corky, crisp, dapper, diagram, fervently, frit, gauffer, gay, graphic card, graphically, hasty, hurry, intense, juicy, keen, knowing, light, lightsome, live, lively, living, lummox, lute, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, nimbleness, Nirvana, parlance, perm, pertain, piddle, poignantly, quick, racy, rattling, resilient, shrewd, smart, spanking, speaking, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, subtil, subtile, subtle, swift, swift-handed, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, watchful, zippy), parir (calve, cast, cub, dough, far-seeing, fawning, foalfoot, give birth, give birth to, kid, lambaste, pup, teem, yean), felino (catlike, cattish, fell), brincalhão (frisky, frolic, gamesome, hoity toity, jesting, jesuit, jocular, joker, joky, larmier, mischievous, playful, prankish, rollicking, sportful, sporting, sportive, tricksy, waggish, wanton), ágil (able, active, adroit, agile, alert, brisk, clever, deft, dexterous, keen, light footed, lightsome, limber, lissome, list, lithe, lithium, nimble, skillful, springy, spry, volant). (various references) jucãuş (dancer, frolicsome, jocose, lambent, playful, prankish, rolling, skittish, wanton). (various references) игривый как котенок. (various references) kao mačkica, nestašan (be naughty, frisky, mischievous, puckish, restless, rogue, unruly), afektiran (mannered, prim). (various references) retozón (coltish, frisky, frolicsome, rollicking), picaruelo (rogue, roguish), coquetón (attractive, flirtatious, lady killer, natty). (various references) lekfull (frisky, frolic, frolicsome, gamesome, playful, rompish, skittish, sportive). (various references) ขี้เล่น. (various references) fingirdek (coquettish, flirtatious, frivolous, light, ludic), cilveli (coquettish). (various references) грайливий (arch, facetious, frisky, gamesome, jocose, playful, playsome, skittish, wanton), пустотливий (airy, arch, coltish, elfish, elvish, frisky, gamesome, impish, mischievous, monkeyish, naughty, prankish, puckish, roguish, sly, waggish, wanton, whisky). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "kittenish": kittenishly, kittenishness, kittenishnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Kittenish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Kittani. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "kittenish" (pronounced 'Kit"ten*ish'): Abolish, Accomplish, Admonish, Affamish, Aguish, Alish, Alumish, Amateurish, Anchoretish, Animalish, Apish, Arrish, Aspish, Assish, Astonish, Babish, Baboonish, Babyish, Babylonish, Baddish, Balkish, Banish, Bardish, Basquish, Batfish, Bearish, Beauish, Bish, Bitterish, Blackish, Blandish, Blindfish, Blockish, Bluish, Bluntish, Boarfish, Boarish, Bobbish, Bogglish, Boobyish, Bookish, Boorish, Borough-English, Boyish, Brackish, Brainish, Brigandish, Brinish, Broadish, Brockish. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-i-i-k-n-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: inkiest, kittens, kitties, tiniest. | |
-3 letters: kithes, kitten, seniti, sitten, tenths, theins, theist, thinks, tithes. | |
-4 letters: heist, hents, hikes, hints, inset, intis, khets, kines, kites, kithe, kiths, knish, knits, neist, netts, nisei, nites, senti, sheik, shent, shine, shtik, skein, skint, skite, stein, stink, stint, tenth, tents, teths, thein, thens, thine, think, thins, tikes, tikis. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-i-i-k-n-s-t-t" | |
+2 letters: kinesthetic, kittenishly. | |
+3 letters: skittishness. | |
+4 letters: kittenishness. | |
+5 letters: skittishnesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4B 69 74 74 65 6E 69 73 68 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.- .. - - . -. .. ... .... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001011 01101001 01110100 01110100 01100101 01101110 01101001 01110011 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)K i t t e n i s h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004B 0069 0074 0074 0065 006E 0069 0073 0068 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)457586867180758574 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, الألبانية, الألباني, албанец, албански език, албански, albánský, Albanais, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, albán, albanese, Albaneagh, albanês, arnãut, albanez, arnãuţesc, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, alban, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | arabishte, العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, arabský, arabština, arabe, arabisch, αραβικόσ, arab, arabo, Arabish, arabic, арабский, arapski, árabe, arabisk, าษาหรืออักขระอาหรับ, เกี่ยวกับอาระเบีย, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | bulgr, البلغارية, بلغاري, български, български език, българин, bulharský, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, bulgaro, Bulgeyragh, Bulgeyrish, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | çek, تشيكي, اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, чешки, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tchèque, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, Sheckagh, Sheckish, ceh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | frëngjishte, frëng, franceze, اللغة الفرنسية, فرنسي, الشعب الفرنسي, френски език, френски, francouzský, francouzština, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francia, francese, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, francês, francezii, franţuzesc, francezã, francez, franţuzeşte, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransk, franska, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | gjerman, ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, المانية, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, nìmec, nìmecký, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, német, tedesco, Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane, alemão, neamţ, немецкий, germanski, alemán, tysk, าษาเยอรมัน, เยอรมัน, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, الإغريقي, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, řek, řecký, řeètina, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, greco, Greagish, Greagagh, grego, greacã, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, grek, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | مجري, المجري, الهنغاري, هنغاري, اللغة الهنغارية, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, ungherese, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | الإيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, إيطالي, شخص إيطالي, италиански език, италиански, италианец, italský, italština, ital, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, olasz, italiano, Iddaalish, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, italianã, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italiensk, italienska, italienare, ชาวอิตาลี, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | gjuha e popullsisë së ishullit men, manština, manský, manx, mann-szigeti nyelv, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн, s ostrva mana, los habitantes de la isla de man, lengua de la isla de man, de la isla de man, från ön man, man adası, man dili, менський, менський діалект |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugez, portugalisht, اللغة البرتغالية, البرتغالية, البرتغالي, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugalský, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, Portiugish, Portiugagh, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portugis, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець |
Romanian | dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire | rumun, румънски език, румънски, румънец, rumunský, rumunština, Roumain, rumäne, ρουμανόσ, Ρουμάνος, román, rumeno, Roomainagh, romeno, român, румынский, румын, rumunski jezik, rumunski, rumano, rumänsk, румунський, румунка, румунська мова, румун |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | روسي, اللغة الروسية, الروسية, руски език, руски, руснак, ruština, ruský, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, orosz, russo, Rooshish, Rooshagh, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss, ชาวรัสเซีย, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | serbokroatisch, servo-croata, sârbo-croat, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk, เกี่ยวกับ าษาเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย, าษาหลักของชาวเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | spanjoll, اللغة الأسبانية, الأسبانية, أسباني, испански език, испански, španìlský, španìlština, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spanyol, spagnolo, Spaainish, Spaainagh, espanhol, spaniol, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning | suedez, اللغة السويدية, шведски, шведски език, швед, švédský, švédština, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svedese, Soolynish, Soolynagh, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน าษาและวั'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ"น, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський |
Thai | พจนานุกรม | Thaïlandais, thailändisch, Thailänder, Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, tailandese, tailandês, tailandés, thailändare, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย, Tayland, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tai Dili, Та"ць, Тайська Мова, Тайський |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | turk, تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, اللغة التركية, турски език, турски, turecký, tureètina, turque, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turcesc, turc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова |
Ukranian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglicky, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, inglese, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, inglês, englezesc, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
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