have kittens
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.47 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Usually of a female cat, to give birth to kittens.
Example Sentences
- "Your mum will have kittens when she sees what you've done to your hair!"
- "My teacher has kittens every time I get a question wrong."
- "He re-gurgled. “But this is terrible.” “Might be considerably better, I agree.” “Your uncle will be most upset.” “He'll have kittens.”"
- "‘Prepare yourself,’ he warned. ‘Your dad is having kittens.’"
- "The guests are starting to arrive, but the hostess is having kittens because nothing is ready yet."
- "Phipps went on: “One of our chaps, out on a reccy over the Bulgarian front, thought he saw something in the snow. Something fishy. He dropped down to have a dekko and nearly had kittens. What d'you think? Jerry's got a mass of stuff there—tanks, guns, lorries, every sort of heavy armament. All camouflaged. White.”"