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Noun: "(fiction) an anthropomorphic feline, or an individual who has characteristics of a cat on an otherwise human body, such as cat ears and a cat tail"[ edit ]
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2000 June 27, Michael Barnes, “Re: Arthurian variant”, in rec.games.roguelike.angband [1] (Usenet ):I'll ask one once I get the catperson race written in.
2001 May 16, Ironwood [ username] , “Re: SPOCK: Starfleet's first Vulcan? (Re: More "Enterprise" details:)”, in alt.tv.star-trek.tos [2] (Usenet ):There was that catperson on the Federation council. Could it have been...?
2002 October 2, Cybercat [ username] , “Re: [I] Re: The plural of twix”, in alt.fan.pratchett [3] (Usenet ):It's from some anime series, where the catperson ends all sentences with nyo.
2003 December 23, Bradd W. Szonye, “Re: The New D&D Setting”, in rec.games.frp.dnd [4] (Usenet ):The PCs: a human samurai, a giff musketeer, a catperson bounty hunter, and a dwarf cleric.
2004 September 28, Juan F. Lara, “Re: Inuyasha Catgirl Alert!”, in rec.arts.anime.misc [5] (Usenet ):Well, if the catperson is literally a human with cat ears and a tail stuck on him/her that's definitely not enough for me.
2012 — Timothy Rowlands, Video Game Worlds: Working at Play in the Culture of EverQuest, Left Coast Press (2012), →ISBN , page 69 :
I haven't seen one of my earliest acquaintances in the game, a catperson berserker named Silverkat, since Ugeta was just a lowbie.