Cat Vocabulary

“A curious cat – with long white whiskers – purrs and waits for some attention.”

• A young cat is called a kitten.
• The collective noun for a group of cats is a clowder, cluster or pounce. For kittens the collective noun is kindle, litter or pillow.
• Feline is used to refer to any animal that is in the cat family.

More Cat Expressions:

• Cat got your tongue (idiom)
• Copycat (idiom)
• Let the cat out of the bag (idiom)
• Moggy (slang)
• Raining cats and dogs (idiom)
• While the cat’s away the mice will play (proverb)

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