cattess
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]cattess (plural cattesses)
- Alternative spelling of catess
- 1962, Daphne Athas, “Barbara”, in Greece by Prejudice, →LCCN, pages 154–155:
- “Original Rhodean goddess,” she intoned. “The Original Asiatic Cattess, the one on which the Sphinxes were modeled!” “What Cattess?” “This cat has sprung out of the walls full-fledged. Look at it. It is sitting in judgment on one hand, yet not fully aware of its human condition on the other, calling with a voice which it does not even recognize as its own! It has immense power! It’s a matter of form, that’s all. It could be a reincarnation, a goddess incarnate, anything! […]” “The Original Cattess has spoken,” said Barbara.
- 1966, Bil Gilbert, “Pet Yummies”, in Bears in the Ladies’ Room and Other Beastly Pursuits, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 187:
- It would be worth paying admission to see a tomcat meet a cattess wearing Sani-Panties.
- 1977, George Melly, Rum, Bum and Concertina, Futura Publications Limited, published 1978, →ISBN, page 80:
- I remember him, that first evening, declining trifle for pudding: ‘It is the ’orrible custard and the bread of yesterday,’ and also answering my query as to whether the scream of cats in sexual congress on an adjacent Beak Street roof-top was caused by pleasure or pain with: ’Pleasure for the cat, and pain for the cattess’.
- 2010, Christine Wilson, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Anne Sutton, Rebecca Gresham, Rachael Sharma, Cathrine Garnell, Mara Strydom, Teri Offield, Etta Finta, Clawless: A Soap Opurra for Cats, Authors OnLine Ltd, →ISBN, pages 219–220:
- Some French dude food commanded me to come with him and gave me this ridiculous coiffure and coloured me pink and gave me to a luscious looking cattess who has been very nice to me. […] Only the cattess is gone and my feline littermate and I have been left to our own devices. […] Another cattess, kinda pale but formerly tabby, popped out of a book and seems to be hooking up everyone in the castle, including my original cattess.