catkind

noun

catkind

noun

Etymology From cat + -kind, by anology with mankind.

1

All cats, considered as a group.

What Eliot had in mind by writing "Growltiger's Last Stand" is difficult to say unless it was to present catkind in one of its most deplorable states.1978, Francelia Butler, editor, Children's literature, Volume 7:

Related terms: dogkind, horsekind

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