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cat's melody en · NOUN

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1. (Ireland, Scotland, dated) A cacophony.
   • You vegetable cat's melody! Your Concert Miaulant is A triumph o' discord shairly 1926, Hugh MacDiarmid, A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle:
   • The wife within is sending the curses thick and heavy on me, and the childre's playing the cat's melody to keep her in comfort. 1860 William Carleton "The Three Wishes; An Irish legend" Irish Life and Character; or, Tales and stories of the Irish peasantry p. 333 (London: Henry Lea)
   • 'This is completely absurd,' I heard him say, his voice barely audible above the screaming that had now started. 'Believe me, I never —' Then all we could see was writhing. And sounds I don't care to try to represent or transcribe: what used to be called the cat's melody. 2016, Adrian Barnes, “Day 4; Accidental Colours”, in Nod, London: Titan, →ISBN:

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cats' concert