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Manx cat   /mæŋks kæt/   Listen
Manx cat

noun
1.
A short-haired tailless breed of cat believed to originate on the Isle of Man.  Synonym: Manx.





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"Manx cat" Quotes from Famous Books



... devoted to Henley and Morris and Walt Whitman, an ancient brier between his teeth and a canister of excellent tobacco at his elbow. Odd, isn't it, that an Englishman without his pipe is as incomplete as a Manx cat, which, as doubtless you know, has no tail. After all, does a Manx cat know that it is incomplete? Let me say, then, as incomplete as a small boy ...
— The Voice in the Fog • Harold MacGrath


Words linked to "Manx cat" :   domestic cat, Felis domesticus, house cat, Felis catus


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