Meaning

(uncountable) The hair of a cat..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) The hair of a cat.
2. (countable) A single hair of a cat.
3. An ancient Irish fortification of stone or earthwork.

Example Sentences

How can you tell a cat owner? all the little claw marks on their back...Or by the cathair that sticks to their suit.

The conscientious Mrs. Fulgrove was driving away as he pulled into the barnyard, and he waved to her; the woman's scowl indicated that she had worked overtime because of the vast amount of cathair everywhere.

Meditate on the steady drone and the rocking of the back and forth vacuum dance you do as you suck up the cathair, the ashes, the seeds, the stray leaves.

Cat likes to brush against it and sun on the deck chair, the cushion is a mat of gray cathair.

A pimpled chin, dark with cathairs, a mouthful of irregular teeth, were visible below helmet and goggles.

The closed-door policy, he liked to explain, kept the cats out of his hair and the cathairs out of his typewriter.

I'm sure they use the same stuff that sticks cathairs to clothes in paint. It's just as difficult to remove... […] [T]he first law of cathairs is they get everywhere, including where it's physically impossible, etc.

Several cathairs which we have examined are not circular in plan, but appear to have been formed to suit the contour of the eminence upon which they stand; and others are of an oval form.

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When Should You Use Cathair?

Use cathair when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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