catships

Noun

catship (plural catships)

1. The role, status, or classification of a cat, sometimes humorously used as a form of address.
   • The "cat fad," as it is often called by the uninitiated, is not new by any means, for his catship was an object of veneration among the ancient Egyptians, and one scarcely wonders at it when he sees some of the fine blooded animals that can boast of an ancestry as long and aristocratic as many an...1900, The International, volume 8, page 376