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In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans , an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners . [ 1 ]
The word pussy refers to cats as well as other animals, including rabbits and hares. Male catkins from a pussy willow. Both in English and in German puss was used as a "call-name" for cats, but in English pussy was used as a synonym for the word cat in other uses as well. In addition to cats, the word was also used for rabbits and hares. In the ...
Female cats, called queens, are polyestrous with several estrus cycles during a year, lasting usually 21 days. They are usually ready to mate between early February and August [153] in northern temperate zones and throughout the year in equatorial regions. [154] Several males, called tomcats, are attracted to a female in heat.
A catgirl (猫娘, nekomusume) is a young female character with feline traits, such as cat ears (猫耳, nekomimi), a cat tail, or other feline characteristics on an otherwise human body. They are not individuals who are literal cats but individuals who only look superficially feline. [1]
Louis Le Breton's illustration of a grimalkin from the Dictionnaire Infernal. A grimalkin, also known as a greymalkin, is an archaic term for a cat. [1] The term stems from "grey" (the colour) plus "malkin", an archaic term with several meanings (a low class woman, a weakling, a mop, or a name) derived from a hypocoristic form of the female name Maud. [2]
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Two flowering male catkins from a goat willow tree (Salix caprea).Pussy willow used as Lunar New Year decoration. Easter postcard (Germany, 1902) Pussy willow is a name given to many of the smaller species of the genus Salix (willows and sallows) when their furry catkins are young in early spring.
The term "cat lady" has also been used as a pejorative term towards women without children, regardless of if they actually own cats. [2] [3] Depending on context, the ordinarily pejorative word "crazy" may be prepended to "cat lady" to indicate either a pejorative [1] or a humorous and affectionate label. [4]