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cat-man

cat-man is the alternative form of catman.

cat-man is the alternative form of cat man.

Meaning of catman

Noun

catman (plural catmen)

  1. A man having physical characteristics of a cat.

Meaning of cat man

Noun

cat man (plural cat men)

  1. A man who likes cats or prefers cats as pets, often as opposed to liking dogs.
    • Now. I am not a cat man, but a dog man. Indeed, if I had my way. I would own an English bulldog, which I consider the king of breeds.1942, Stephen Benet, The Australian Women's Weekly, page 2

Forms of cat-man

pluralcat-men

Questions about cat-man

What is cat-man the alternative form of?
Cat-man is the alternative form of catman.

Words near cat-man in the dictionary

  1. cat-houses
  2. cat-lap
  3. cat-lick
  4. cat-licks
  5. cat-like
  6. cat-man
  7. cat-men
  8. cat-nap
  9. cat-napped
  10. cat-napper
  11. cat-nappers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cat-man (page history and authors); catman (page history and authors); cat man (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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