catwise
advEtymology From cat + -wise.
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In the manner of a cat.
- Turning with an effort from the sad cat, Amy Parker looked through the fog of the window and saw her neighbour elongate herself catwise round the corner of a shed...1955, Patrick White, The tree of man:
- Every cat is necessarily such that its parts are arranged catwise.1997, Michael Cannon Rea, Material constitution: a reader:
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- In a happier mood, had he not been driven by hunger, he might have played with it, catwise, when it was dead, tossing it up and pretending that it was alive...2005, Charles Mayer, Jungle Beasts I Have Captured: