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catty | dogged |

As adjectives the difference between catty and dogged

is that catty is (informal|of a person or remark) with subtle hostility in an effort to hurt, annoy or upset, particularly among women while dogged is stubbornly persevering, steadfast.

As a noun catty

is a (unit of) weight used in china, generally standardized as half a kilogram.

As a verb dogged is

(dog).

catty

English

Alternative forms

* cattie

Etymology 1

; in sense “hostility”, see (m).

Adjective

(er)
  • (informal, of a person or remark) With subtle hostility in an effort to hurt, annoy or upset, particularly among women.
  • (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a cat.
  • a catty smell
    Synonyms
    * (spiteful) bitchy (derogatory), cattish, malicious, nasty, snide, spiteful
    See also
    *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) kati, from (etyl) languages, Mandarin:

    Noun

    (head)
  • A (unit of) weight used in China, generally standardized as half a kilogram.
  • * 2009 , Huaiyin Li, Village China Under Socialism and Reform: A Micro-History, 1948-2008 , Stanford University Press, ISBN 978-0-8047-5974-8, page 94:
  • To limit team members' consumption, it issued food stamps to the villagers and allowed everyone to eat one catty of rice a day.
  • * 1699 , Captain William Dampier, A new voyage round the world, Volume 1 :
  • 16 Mess'', make a ''Tale'', which here is 20 ''s''. ''English'', 5 ''Tale'' make a ''Bancal'', a weight so called, and 20 ''Bancal'' make a ''Catty , another weight.
  • * 1847 , Robert Montgomery Martin, China; Political, Commercial, and Social , Volume 2, James Madden (publisher), page 124:
  • Transparent yellow pieces are the best; the price is from eight to fourteen dollars per catty , according to size and quality.
    See also
    * (Hong Kong units) chek , tsun , fan , picul , tael , mace , candareen , tsin , leung , kan , tam English terms with multiple etymologies

    dogged

    English

    Etymology 1

    From the verb to dog .

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dog)
  • * 1903 , , The Way of All Flesh :
  • At night proctors patrolled the street and dogged your steps if you tried to go into any haunt where the presence of vice was suspected.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl), characteristics similar to that of a dog .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • stubbornly persevering, steadfast
  • * 1900 , , The Son of the Wolf :
  • Still, the dogged obstinacy of his race held him to the pace he had set, and would hold him till he dropped in his tracks.
  • * 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage :
  • It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
    Synonyms
    * committed, determined, persistent, steadfast * See also
    Derived terms
    * doggedly * doggedness