喜樂美語
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    Cattiness is that mean, scratchy quality in someone's words — the habit of saying things in a small, sharp way, often behind a person's back or with a sweet face. It is the noun from catty. Informal. You might talk about a bit of cattiness in the group chat rather than a loud quarrel. It feels petty more than dangerous: little cuts, not a war. Same as with catty, English has long painted this as a woman's fault; that is the language being unfair, not a rule of life.

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組成From catty + -ness, which turns the adjective into a noun for the quality.

同家族的字

  • cattythe adjective this is made from
  • cattilythe adverb for the same mean style

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

cattinessnoun

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    The quality of being catty; cattishness

    • 2004 Ward Hunt et.al. - James Bowdoin and the Patriot Philosophers Who had been tapped for the new society, and why, had become a topic of local gossip, conjecture, and even cattiness.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。