catbath
/ˈkæt.bæθ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A session of grooming in which a cat cleans its own fur or that of another cat using its tongue.
noun
A form of foreplay, chiefly in Southeast Asian sex work, in which one participant licks the other all over their body.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cat, bath.
Example Sentences
- "After a while, I wondered where Iggy had gotten to. I found him in the empty tub, taking a cat bath, his leg luxuriously up in the air being scrubbed tongue clean. I guess he wanted a “real” bath where mommy takes hers."
- "She slept. And dreamed, pleasantly. She was a cat. Not a repulsive scroungy cat like Jenny's, but an elegant Abyssinian. She was curled up with another cat, getting a cat-bath."
- "He hitched himself over to the jug at once, and hefting it as lightly as if it were a wine cup, drank a long, long draught. Then he wet a corner of his sleeve, and cleaned the grime and blood-clot and cobweb off his face and hands as best he could. He spent some while at this, and the girl watched. When he was done he looked better, but his catbath had revealed the scars on one side of his face: old scars long healed, whitish on his dark skin, four parallel ridges from eye to jawbone, as if from the scraping talons of a huge claw."
- ""Doesn't matter. You take a cat-bath and change your panties. We've got a date with ten o'clock Mass.""
- "After showering if the line was not too long, or a catbath, I changed into clothes I would wear the next day and set out in sandals, free from backpack and poles to find a bar or restaurant where I could sit at a table alone for some time and write before dinner."
- "‘Cat bath, hmm, I wonder what that is?’ I said, trying to imagine what it involved."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkæt.bæθ/