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How to pronounce catty in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms cattie
Type of weight, weight unit
Type Words
Synonyms bitchy, cattish
Derivation cat, cattiness


a catty remark.

Examples of catty

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People can be very catty and hostile and passive-aggressive, that's not unusual.
From the metro.co.uk
She also has some help for those catty calorie counters in the dating trenches.
From the chron.com
Count me out of any catty-exclusionary-witchy game you play, because it's not fun.
From the stltoday.com
Time has made Elizabeth a little less perfect, and Jessica is a little less catty.
From the sacbee.com
They certainly acted like catty old women, but their true inspiration is a secret.
From the ocregister.com
Jesinta is herding cats, well celebrities who are being catty about Jesinta anyway.
From the dailyadvertiser.com.au
They are willing to be catty in a way that Nashville girls wouldn't dream of being.
From the tennessean.com
But the old smoothy isn't above making a few catty remarks about Grace Jones.
From the independent.co.uk
Sometimes we do fight because we're teenage girls and it gets kind of catty.
From the denverpost.com
More examples
  • Any of various units of weight used in southeastern Asia (especially a Chinese measure equal to 500 grams)
  • Bitchy: marked by or arising from malice; "a catty remark"
  • A (unit of) weight used in China, generally standardized as less than a kilogram; With subtle hostility in an effort to hurt, annoy, or upset; Resembling or characteristic of a cat
  • (cattily) In a catty manner
  • Musical play. 1987. Libretto by Magdalena Eggleston
  • Chinese unit of measure weighing more than one pound.
  • Chinese unit of weight; approx. 1.33 lb/0.7 kg
  • (n.) female as described by a male to another male
  • 1.1 pounds, or roughly half a kilogram.