a. [f. CAT sb.1 + -ISH1.] Belonging to or resembling a cat; feline.
1598. Florio, Gattino, of a cat kinde, cattish.
c. 1630. Drumm. of Hawth., Phillis on Death of Sparrow, Wks. (1711), 50. Vengeance falling on the cattish race.
1818. Lamb, Prince Dorus, 5. All her cattish gestures plainly spoke.
1877. Blackie, Wise Men, 95. Flaring cattish eyes.
