cat lady

English

A cat lady feeding strays in Rome.

Pronunciation

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Noun

cat lady (plural cat ladies)

1. (informal, sometimes derogatory) A woman, often elderly, who devotes her time and attention to one or usually many domestic cats.

   Hypernym: catlover

   • 2009 March 19, Jessica Fargen, “Cops: Lady froze her cats again”, in Boston Herald‎^[1]:

     Beacon Hill’s notorious cat lady was in the spotlight again yesterday after an angry confrontation with cops who say they found at least two dead felines in her freezer following a brief standoff at her Plymouth home.

   • 2009 November, Suzanne Mullett, ABC News‎^[2]:

     The most common is a female character. Single of course, lamenting that she can never own a cat because once you have one you won't be far away from being the cat lady of the neighborhood.

   • 2023 October 3, Sirin Kale, “Purring, parasites and pure love: what exactly makes someone a cat person?”, in The Guardian‎^[3], →ISSN:

     We all know the stereotype of the crazy cat lady who lives alone in a home that smells of stale litter. But how unjust is it really?

Translations

elderly lady who devotes her attention to cats

• French: femme à chats (fr) f
• Hungarian: macskás nő
• Italian: gattara (it) f
• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 猫おばさん (ねこおばさん, neko obasan)
• Macedonian: мачкарка f (mačkarka)

Further reading

• cat lady on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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