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cat-sit en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of catsit.
    alt of catsit
    • Suzana was off to the Burning Man festival this year and wanted me to be home in time to cat-sit, though she'd tried not to hint too broadly. 2014, Janine Ashbless, Cover Him with Darkness, page 25:
    • Polly Duncan has a new kitten and I agreed to cat-sit, but he turned out to be a wound-up, hyperactive, jet-propelled maniac! 1990, Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat who Talked to Ghosts, page 227:
    • If you are a cat lover, you can cat-sit for a season in some spiffy house or apartment. 1972, Lavinia Russ, A high old time: or, How to enjoy being a woman over sixty, page 194:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
cat-sits Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
cat-sitting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
cat-sat Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
cat-sat Tense=Past lexicographic