| 释义 |
ˈcattiness
[f. catty a. + -ness.]
= cattishness.
192019th Cent. Nov. 752 Her antagonism to her own sex—known colloquially as ‘cattiness’. 1928Sunday Express 6 May 4 Manx folk are wonderfully good-natured,..and cattiness..is practically non-existent. 1951R. Knox Stimuli iii. v. 98 It is not an impossible Lenten resolution to give up..the delights of saying ‘I told you so’: to cut from our conversation..the spirit which I think St. Paul..would probably have labelled ‘cattiness’. |