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kitten
has definitions from the field of zoology
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[ noun ] (zoology) young domestic cat
Synonyms Used in print (Bell I. Wiley, "Home Letters of Johnny Reb and Billy...)I would tell them I got a letter from home stating that five of my Negroes had run_away and ten of Pappies But I wold say I recond he did not mind it for he had a plenty more left and_then they would lean to me like a sore_eyd kitten to a basin of milk '' . (Dell Shannon, The Ace of Spades....)He seemed to remember reading somewhere that Abyssinians had large litters , and suffered a dismaying vision of the apartment overrun with a dozen kittens . `` A lot of people are so peculiar that they do n't like cats , it 's not the easiest thing in the world to find good homes for kittens - and , damn_it , you know very_well if I have them around long , impossible to give them away ! And I suppose now that you 've finally grown_up , if a_little late , you 'd go_on producing kittens every six months or_so . Yes , well , it 's a pity to spoil your girlish figure - which all those kittens would do anyway - but I think when you 've raised these we 'll just have the vet fix it so there won n't be any more . Related terms |
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