kittenish
adjEtymology From kitten + -ish.
1
Having the qualities or likeness of a kitten.
- She was kittenish in her manners, wearing generally an air of soft and fluffy innocence.1889, Rudyard Kipling, “At the Pit's Mouth”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 48:
- Sleeping, Myra appeared cuddly, kittenish. Girls, Gordon thought to himself. Girls can really drive you crazy.2011, Jeff Dee, Gordon Ryder's Blues, page 165:
2
Playful, sometimes with overtones of female sexuality.
- Derived terms
- kittenishly, kittenishness