Definition of Cheshire cat

1. Noun. A fictional cat with a broad fixed smile on its face; created by Lewis Carroll.


Definition of Cheshire cat

1. Proper noun. A fictional grinning cat, made popular by Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cheshire Cat

Chermidae
Chernihiv
Chernivtsi
Chernobyl
Chernobyls
Cherokee
Cherokee rose
Cherokees
Cherry
Cherubini
Cherusci
Cheryl
Chesapeake Bay
Chesapeake Bay retriever
Cheshire
Cheshire cat (current term)
Cheshire cheese
Cheshvan
Chessy copper
Chester
Chester A. Arthur
Chester Alan Arthur
Chester Nimitz
Chester William Nimitz
Chesterfield
Chesterton
Chet
Chevalier-Jackson dilator
Chevalier de Bayard
Chevalier de Lamarck

Literary usage of Cheshire cat

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"Cheshire cat, s. 4 quarters = I acre. "To grin like a Cheshire cat" is a proverbial saying. Leigh gives the following variants: " To grin like a Cheshire ..."

2. The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of by Lionel Strachey (1906)
"... CL Dodgson—"Lewis Carroll" The Cheshire cat ALICE was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. ..."

3. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"... Cheshire cat EATING CHEESE — I have always heard ' evacuating bones,' which if less decent is more expressive. l«*). DODT.SON (' Lewis Carroll '), A lût ..."

4. A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester by Robert Holland (1886)
"Cheshire cat, s. 4 quarters = I acre. "To grin like a Cheshire cat" ¡sa proverbial saying. Leigh gives the following variants : " To grin like a Cheshire ..."

5. Lean's Collectanea by Vincent Stuckey Lean, Julia Lucy Woodward (1902)
"A Welsh bitch makes a Cheshire cat, and a Cheshire cat makes a Lancashire witch. ... 194) has "Grinnin' like a Cheshire cat chewing gravel" comes from the ..."

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