grimalkin

Noun

grimalkin (plural grimalkins)

1. A cat, especially an elderly female.
   • Servant:..."Commend me unto Titton Tatton and to Puss thy Catton, and tell her that Grimalkin is dead.".1553, William Baldwin, Beware the Cat
   • As fair Grimalkin, who, though the youngeſt of the Feline Family, degenerates not in Feroſity from the elder Branches of her Houſe, and though inferior in Strength, is equal in Fierceneſs to the noble Tyger himſelf, when a little Mouſe, whom it hath long tormented in Sport, eſcapes from her...1749, Henry Fielding, “Containing One of the Most Bloody Battles, or rather Duels, that were ever Recorded in Domestic History”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume I, London: A[ndrew]...
2. (archaic) A bad-tempered old woman; a crone.

   Synonyms:

   old woman, babushka, bag, bat, beldame, biddy, bluehair, bubbe, carline, carlin