catty

About 0.14 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Resembling or characteristic of a cat.

   catty eyes

2. adjective With subtle hostility in an effort to hurt, annoy, or upset (particularly in interactions between women).
3. noun A (unit of) weight used in China which is metricated in Mainland China as exactly 0.5 kg, and approximately 0.6 kg for other places.
4. noun A catapult.

Similar words

bitchy malevolent malicious cattish cattie snide feline kilo chin jin

Often followed by

of and remarks about is remark was had to

Word family

cattier catties cattiest cattily cattiness cattinesses