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cat-girl

cat-girl is the alternative form of catgirl.

Meaning of catgirl

Noun

catgirl (plural catgirls)

  1. (slang) A girl or woman who wears a cat costume and plays the role of a cat.
  2. (Japanese) A female fictional character who has a cat's ears, tail, or other feline characteristics on an otherwise humanoid body.
    • But publishers cannot survive on cute catgirls alone.2009, Jason S. Yadao, The Rough Guide to Manga, page 222
    Synonyms:
    neko, nekomimi

Forms of cat-girl

pluralcat-girls

Questions about cat-girl

What is cat-girl the alternative form of?
Cat-girl is the alternative form of catgirl.

Words near cat-girl in the dictionary

  1. cat-footed
  2. cat-footedness
  3. cat-footing
  4. cat-foots
  5. cat-fur
  6. cat-girl
  7. cat-girls
  8. cat-hammed
  9. cat-harpin
  10. cat-harping
  11. cat-harpings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cat-girl (page history and authors); catgirl (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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