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Definition of Cheshire cat
1. Noun. A fictional cat with a broad fixed smile on its face; created by Lewis Carroll.
Definition of Cheshire cat
1. Proper noun. A fictional grinning cat, made popular by Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cheshire Cat
Literary usage of Cheshire cat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"Cheshire cat, s. 4 quarters = I acre. "To grin like a Cheshire cat" is a proverbial
saying. Leigh gives the following variants: " To grin like a Cheshire ..."
2. The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of by Lionel Strachey (1906)
"... CL Dodgson—"Lewis Carroll" The Cheshire cat ALICE was a little startled by
seeing the Cheshire cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. ..."
3. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"... Cheshire cat EATING CHEESE — I have always heard ' evacuating bones,' which
if less decent is more expressive. l«*). DODT.SON (' Lewis Carroll '), A lût ..."
4. A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester by Robert Holland (1886)
"Cheshire cat, s. 4 quarters = I acre. "To grin like a Cheshire cat" ¡sa proverbial
saying. Leigh gives the following variants : " To grin like a Cheshire ..."
5. Lean's Collectanea by Vincent Stuckey Lean, Julia Lucy Woodward (1902)
"A Welsh bitch makes a Cheshire cat, and a Cheshire cat makes a Lancashire witch.
... 194) has "Grinnin' like a Cheshire cat chewing gravel" comes from the ..."
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