The ordinary name when a person keeps a collection of cats

The ordinary name when a person keeps a collection of cats

Cattery. A place where cats are kept, the ordinary name when a person keeps a collection of cats.

Cattish. Having stealthy ways, slow and cautious in movements, watchful.

Catwater. (Plymouth). "This is a remarkable instance of mistranslation. The castle at the mouth of the Plym used to be called the Château; but some one, thinking it would be better to Anglicise the French, divided the word into two parts: chat (cat), eau (water)." Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable.

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