Usually means: Petty, spiteful, or malicious behavior.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word catty:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. catty: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. catty, catty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. catty, catty: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. catty: Collins English Dictionary
  5. catty: Vocabulary.com
  6. Catty, catty: Wordnik
  7. catty: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Catty, catty: Wiktionary
  9. catty: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. catty: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. catty: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Catty, catty: Dictionary.com
  13. catty: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Catty (disambiguation), Catty (unit), Catty: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Catty: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. catty: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. catty: Rhymezone
  18. Catty: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. catty: Free Dictionary
  20. catty: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. catty: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. catty: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. catty: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. catty: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. catty, catty: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. the catty: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See cattier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (informal, of a person or remark) With subtle hostility in an effort to hurt, annoy, or upset, particularly among women.
adjective:  (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a cat.
noun:  A (unit of) weight used in China, generally standardized as half a kilogram.
noun:  (slang) A catapult.
noun:  (US, colloquial) The borough of Catasauqua in Pennsylvania.

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