Tom made a catty joke about Mary's dress being from a thrift shop.
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Catty
//ˈkæti//
Synonyms for "catty" (78 found)
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Noun(1 words)
Strong matches (23)
Related words (39)
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1 entriesTranslations
40 translations across 26 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- злобен adj (spiteful)
Chagatai
1 entries- جینگ noun (Chinese unit of weight)
Chinese
1 entries- 斤 noun (Chinese unit of weight)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 斤 noun (Chinese unit of weight)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 斤 noun (Chinese unit of weight)
Czech
4 entries- kočičí adj (resembling or characteristic of a cat)
- nepříjemný adj (spiteful)
- zlomyslný adj (spiteful)
- škodolibý adj (spiteful)
Danish
1 entries- sladrende adj (spiteful)
Dutch
1 entries- kattig adj (spiteful)
Finnish
1 entries- ilkeä adj (spiteful)
French
3 entries- méchant adj (spiteful)
- rosse adj (spiteful)
- rosserie adj (spiteful)
German
4 entries- boshaft adj (spiteful)
- gehässig adj (spiteful)
- stutenbissig adj (spiteful)
- zickig adj (spiteful)
Hakka Chinese
1 entries- 斤 noun (Chinese unit of weight)
Hungarian
3 entries- alattomos adj (spiteful)
- rosszindulatú adj (spiteful)
- sunyi adj (spiteful)
Indonesian
1 entries- kati noun (Chinese unit of weight)
Italian
1 entries- malizioso adj (spiteful)
Japanese
1 entries- 斤 noun (Chinese unit of weight)
Korean
1 entries- 근 noun (Chinese unit of weight)
Malay
1 entries- kati noun (Chinese unit of weight)
Norwegian
1 entries- spydig adj (spiteful)
Russian
4 entries- зло́бный adj (spiteful)
- злой adj (spiteful)
- озло́бленный adj (spiteful)
- ка́тти noun (Chinese unit of weight)
Spanish
1 entries- malicioso adj (spiteful)
Swedish
1 entries- spydig adj (spiteful)
Thai
1 entries- มายน noun (Chinese unit of weight)
Uyghur
1 entries- جىڭ noun (Chinese unit of weight)
Vietnamese
1 entries- cân noun (Chinese unit of weight)
Wu Chinese
1 entries- 斤 noun (Chinese unit of weight)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Let's not be catty.
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Let us weigh one catty of cuttlefish.
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Ziri named the cat Catty.
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