| 释义 |
† ˈcatting, vbl. n. Obs.
Also 7 cating, cateing.
[as if f. vb. cat.]
Caterwauling; going after the opposite sex (contemptuously).
1681S. Colvil Whig's Suppl. (1695) 116 The language us'd by Catts, When in the Night they go a Cating. c1684Elegy Lady Stair in Law Mem. (1818) 228 (Jam.) A strange unluckie fate..Which sent her [a cat] thus a cateing into hell. 1725New Cant. Dict., Catting, Whoring.
¶ Also in other senses of cat v., q.v. |