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Cait

Cait proper noun: a diminutive of the female given names Caitlin and Caitlyn.

Proper noun

Cait

  1. A diminutive of the female given names Caitlin and Caitlyn.
    • If I were to go with what my parents would have called me had I been born a natal female it would have been Katy. I neither look, nor feel, like a Katy, and some infinitely more famous member of the Kardashian dynasty [i.e., Caitlyn Jenner] has claimed Cait.2017, Juno Dawson, “Stepping Out”, in The Gender Games: The Problem with Men and Women… from Someone Who Has Been Both, London: Two Roads, →ISBN, page 214

Questions about Cait

What does Cait mean?
Cait means a diminutive of the female given names Caitlin and Caitlyn.
What part of speech is Cait?
Cait is a proper noun.

Words near Cait in the dictionary

  1. caissons
  2. Caister
  3. Caister-on-Sea
  4. Caisters
  5. Caistor St Edmund
  6. Cait
  7. Caithness
  8. Caitican
  9. caitiff
  10. caitiffs
  11. caitive

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