Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cat melodeon

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.54 in modern English

Syllables: cat melodeon
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

1

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Terrible, appalling; of very poor quality.

Informal

adj

Cacophonous; raucous.

Informal

Example Sentences

"We're fed up of festivals and funerals and Munster Finals with backs that were cat melodeon."
"Cllr Danny Collins (Ind) pointed out that half of West Cork doesn’t have phone coverage either, and that the situation with broadband was ‘cat melodeon’."
"I'm going to do something cat-melodeon wrong and say you did it and everyone will believe me."
"2021 Christy Moore and Wally Page, "Zozimus & Zimmerman" The lights went down and the crowd went cat melodeon We were all revved up and ready to engage Having hitch hiked all the way from Minnesota Zimmerman was there before us on the stage"

Etymology

Compare cat (“terrible”) and cat's melody. Ciaran Carson suggests the influence of Irish cat marbh or cat mara; literally "dead cat" or "sea cat", figuratively "calamity".

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

catmalogen (alternative) cat malogen (alternative) cat melodium (alternative)

Questions

What does cat melodeon mean?: Terrible, appalling; of very poor quality.
Where does cat melodeon come from?: Compare cat (“terrible”) and cat's melody. Ciaran Carson suggests the influence of Irish cat marbh or cat mara; literally "dead cat" or "sea cat", figuratively "calamity".

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