tear-cat
noun1
Acting, Broadcasting, Entertainment, Film, Lifestyle, Media, Television, Theater Obsolete An overactor.
- Fie upon't, mere fustian; I had rather hear two good bawdy jests then a whole play of such tear-cat thunder-claps.1606, John Day, The Isle of Gulls, in White, Thomas, editor, The Old English Drama, volume 4, published 1830, Induction, page 15:
- I am cal'd by those that have seen my valour, Tear-Cat.1611, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker, The Roaring Girl, act 5, scene 1:
- Related terms
- tear a cat