<span class="searchmatch">cat</span> <span class="searchmatch">and</span> <span class="searchmatch">kitten</span> <span class="searchmatch">sneaking</span> (uncountable) (UK, slang, obsolete) The theft of pint <span class="searchmatch">and</span> quart pots <span class="searchmatch">and</span> small pewter spirit measures from public houses. 1867...
underhand; not openly avowed. <span class="searchmatch">sneaking</span> present participle <span class="searchmatch">and</span> gerund of sneak <span class="searchmatch">cat</span> <span class="searchmatch">and</span> <span class="searchmatch">kitten</span> <span class="searchmatch">sneaking</span> lob-<span class="searchmatch">sneaking</span> <span class="searchmatch">sneaking</span> regarder <span class="searchmatch">sneaking</span> suspicion...
Old French chitoun, cheton, chaton (“<span class="searchmatch">kitten</span>”), diminutive of <span class="searchmatch">cat</span>, chat (“<span class="searchmatch">cat</span>”)); whence Modern French chaton (“<span class="searchmatch">kitten</span>”). Similar words of Germanic origin...
cactus <span class="searchmatch">cat</span> calico <span class="searchmatch">cat</span> care killed a <span class="searchmatch">cat</span>, care killed the <span class="searchmatch">cat</span> cataholic <span class="searchmatch">cat</span>-a-mountain <span class="searchmatch">cat</span> <span class="searchmatch">and</span> dog <span class="searchmatch">cat</span> <span class="searchmatch">and</span> dog life <span class="searchmatch">cat</span> <span class="searchmatch">and</span> <span class="searchmatch">kitten</span> <span class="searchmatch">sneaking</span> <span class="searchmatch">cat</span> <span class="searchmatch">and</span> mouse...
uncommon to hear that such <span class="searchmatch">and</span> such low persons have been "had up" for "<span class="searchmatch">cat</span> <span class="searchmatch">and</span> <span class="searchmatch">kitten</span> <span class="searchmatch">sneaking</span>," i.e., stealing quart <span class="searchmatch">and</span> pint pots. 1925 July – 1926...