Talk:cat lady
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Sense 2: (slang, euphemism) a spinster. (Really euphemism and not dysphemism?!) Anyway I think this is just sense 1, with the actual cat ownership: if you say jokingly "I'll live alone and be a cat lady" you mean sense 1, and you are just using a joky tone about it. Right? You can't be a catless cat lady. Equinox ◑ 05:10, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
- Except for the of-off-Broadway Cat Lady Without A Cat. To me the term means one of two things: (1) a middle-aged or elderly woman who takes care of feeding the neighbourhood cats; or (2) a middle-aged or elderly woman, living on her own, who keeps a
bunchclowder of cats. Being owned by a single cat or a pair of cats is not enough to earn the epithet, unless the submission to the whims of B’sst is so extreme that it is considered strange by others. --Lambiam 20:54, 13 May 2020 (UTC) - The idea is, she's past the normal age of marriage and has nobody in her life. Her only two options are a husband and a bunch of cats. There's no husband in sight so she'd better get some cats. I see this sort of use occasionally but I don't have any quotes at hand to clarify the sense. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 16:38, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 21:24, 23 June 2020 (UTC)