Cathy
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈkæθi/
- A female given name and of its variant forms, also used as a formal given name in the 20th century.
- 1845 October – 1846 June, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights: A Novel, volume XVII, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, publisher, […], published December 1847, OCLC 156123328 ↗:
- 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 978-0-340-92219-4, 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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