the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Catlike; feline.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Having the qualities or ways of a cat; cat-like; feline.
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adj. marked by or arising from malice
Word Usage
"But the sexual weakness that makes woman depend on man for a subsistence, produces a kind of cattish affection which leads a wife to purr about her husband as she would about any man who fed and caressed her."