Cathy

English

Alternative forms

• Cathi, Cathie, Kathi, Kathie, Kathy

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæθi/

Proper noun

Cathy (plural Cathys or Cathies)

1. A diminutive of the female given name Catherine and of its variant forms, also used as a formal given name in the 20th century.
   • 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:

     It was named Catherine, but he never called it the name in full, as he had never called the first Catherine short, probably because Heathcliff had a habit of doing so. The little one was always Cathy, it formed to him a distinction from the mother, and yet, a connection with her; ( - - - )

   • 2007, Kate Jacobs, The Friday Night Knitting Club, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 124:

     'Cathy sounds like the name of a truck-stop waitress,' she overheard her father-in-law tell Adam after they returned from their honeymoon. 'Tell her to call herself Cat and, for Christ's sake, get her to stop biting her lip all the time.'

Anagrams

• tachy, tachy-, yacht, yatch