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kittle cattle

kittle cattle noun: fickle, unmanageable people or things.

Noun

kittle cattle pl (plural only)

  1. (Scotland, plural, plural-only) Fickle, unmanageable people or things.
    • He had inherited his not inconsiderable fortune from an American cousin, who had in his time been a successful speculator—a speculator not exactly in crops, which are notoriously kittle-cattle, but in official crop reports.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries

Questions about kittle cattle

What does kittle cattle mean?
Kittle cattle means fickle, unmanageable people or things.
What part of speech is kittle cattle?
Kittle cattle is a noun.

Words near kittle cattle in the dictionary

  1. Kittitian
  2. Kittitians
  3. kittiwake
  4. kittiwakes
  5. kittle
  6. kittle cattle
  7. kittle of fish
  8. kittled
  9. kittlepins
  10. kittler
  11. kittles

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