catty

Meanings

Adjective

• With subtle hostility in an effort to hurt, annoy or upset, particularly among women.
• Resembling or characteristic of a cat.

Noun

• A (unit of) weight used in China, generally standardized as half a kilogram.
• A catapult.

Related

Similar words

• bitchy , cattish, malicious, nasty, snide, spiteful

Origin

• cat + -y; in sense “hostility”, see catfight.
• From Malay kati, from languages, Mandarin: 斤