Cathy

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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.'

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