[Sca-cooks] OT - - What do you call?

[Michael Newton]

In The Case of our Neutered Female Tawney,who now lives with My mother and
father, Pain in the ASS. But according to the World Book Encyclopedia the
term is Queen. And a Group of Cats is called a Clowder (although noisy comes
to mind when they all start to make noise at once.)

Thorbjorn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philippa Alderton" <phlip_u at yahoo.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 5:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] OT - - What do you call?


>
> --- Rovena <rovena at softdisk.com> wrote:
> > Didn't know who else to ask and since this list
> > seems to know most
> > things ...
> >
> > My husband was discuss our female critters.   I know
> > he is correct in
> > calling the female dogs "bitches" but I am sure
> > there must be a more
> > proper term for the female cats other than "sluts".
> > What is the correct
> > term for a female cat?
>
> Queens ;-)
>
> FWIW, bitch used to be a perfectly legitimate word,
> until it acquired the meanings it has now, much like
> pig or cow have taken on secondary perjorative
> meanings.
>
> Phlip
>
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