kitten

nounyoung cat

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noun young cat

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Word Origin & History

late 14c., probably from an Anglo-French variant of Old French chitoun (Old North French caton) "little cat," from chat "cat," from Late Latin cattus (see cat). Applied playfully to a young girl, a sweetheart, from 1870.

Example Sentences for kitten

Suddenly she smiled—the smile that suggested, in some subtle way, a kitten.

I was ill for three days, and all that time the kitten was kept with me.

Then, too, he used to wash Jack, lapping him all over as a mother cat does her kitten.

Wordsworth's "Kitten and the Falling Leaves," is in the high, moralizing style.

The Pole-cat or Skunk is about the size of a kitten eight months old.

She was absolutely without fear, and could climb like a kitten.

A philosopher who gives his life for a kitten will have advanced the Kingdom of Heaven.

The ball game was exceptional only because Evu prefers the rôle of kitten to that of queen.

After that you never saw the cat anywhere unless the kitten was there, too.

She jumped out of her chair and whirled around like a kitten in a fit.

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