What's the difference between catty and natty?

Catty


Definition:

  • (n.) An East Indian Weight of 1 1/3 pounds.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thomas Mann was catty about him behind his back, calling him second-rate; as well one writer might say of another whose sales and royalties outstrip one's own.
  • (2) It must have seemed a routine assignment for one of the Daily Mail's star columnists: a catty take on the death of Boyzone star Stephen Gately which pandered to the prejudices of its readers.
  • (3) She drops her voice to mimic the catty whispers: "'She doesn't know what she's talking about, silly woman, she must have been poorly advised.'"
  • (4) Now, it is possible that the Times is just being catty, implying something about the marriage – "Declaration of Independence", indeed – without having the goods or the guts to come right out and say it.
  • (5) Although the system did develop a rough measure of "cattiness", it struggled with variations in size, positioning, setting and complexity.
  • (6) "It stops there being any stories about bitchiness, cattiness, any kind of competition.
  • (7) The trend has been upwards, certainly since half-time at White Hart Lane last month, even if that particular afternoon had ended with his dismissal and that unpunished but catty scratch at Jan ­Vertonghen.
  • (8) Perpetual mean girl Madison Sinclair is as catty as ever, Principal Van Clemmons fondly remembers the chaos of Veronica’s detective hobby, and popular 09-ers Gia (Krysten Ritter) and Luke (Sam Huntington) are now a couple.
  • (9) The film is all scented frills, melodramatic flourishes, and catty snark.
  • (10) The substances in question were extracted from the cattie epiphysis and anterior hypothalamus by means of acetic acid extraction from acetone-dehydrated tissue and the following sedimentation of the substances by means of cooled acetone and lyophilization.
  • (11) 267, 6620-6627; Catty, P., Pfister, C., Bruckert, F., and Deterre, P. (1992) J. Biol.
  • (12) He seems to think he has the luxury of time on his side, enough time in which to reform the inherent cattiness of British politics.
  • (13) The real goal of his catty, three-page response, he says, was to embarrass a bureaucratic agency with humor – he pointed out its redaction of vital words defining the proper usage of Section 701 in its accusatory letter, and how it led the FBI to call Wikipedia's use of its seal "problematic".
  • (14) Where, I wonder, is her famous handbag, the £950 Mulberry number that made her jibe about Mrs May’s leather pants seem hypocritical as well as catty?
  • (15) That is for the sporting authorities.” The files - part of a hoard declassified by the Foreign Office on Wednesday - also include a catty portrait of Brian Vine, the late Daily Mail reporter who whisked Budd to Britain.
  • (16) Furthermore, unlike the odious Caroline Bingley, she is open and forthright about her romantic interest in men, rather than devious and catty.
  • (17) Drake's team settled on 17 words – cowy, catty and brothy among them – that "describe and differentiate the majority of flavours encountered in cheddar cheese".
  • (18) He was always very charming and gentlemanly, but also wary and kind of catty at the same time.

Natty


Definition:

  • (a.) Neat; tidy; spruce.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They come in a range of shapes and sizes, with natty little galvanised versions for the smaller home.
  • (2) The most visible sign of this is the arrival each day, when parliament is in session in its lavish, marble-decked halls in the new capital of Naypyidaw , of scores of officers, natty in their freshly pressed olive drab.
  • (3) Celtic are in their traditional green and white hoops – a friend, she shall remain nameless, once tried to argue that Celtic's jersey was in fact stripes and not hoops – and Shakhter are clocking and rocking a natty orange number.
  • (4) Given his reputation as a tough talking Latin American caudillo, it is rather strange at first to see the Ecuadorean president, Rafael Correa , donning a natty lime green helmet and getting on a bicycle to campaign for re-election.
  • (5) In lieu of these outer garments, here's Bob Stokoe in a natty red number at the 1973 FA Cup final, Sunderland's last successful visit to Wembley.
  • (6) It doesn't help that the natty little waistcoat she is wearing makes her look a bit like the Artful Dodger and that she has tucked her size-three feet under her bottom in the chair, halving her 5ft frame.
  • (7) Further down the line lay the Notting Hill riots of 1958, Joe Harriott at Ronnie Scott's, the Notting Hill street carnival, the Equals singing Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys, the Clash singing Police and Thieves, football fans throwing bananas at black players, black players becoming international captains, Lenny Henry offering to be repatriated to Dudley, Paul Gilroy's There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack, the Brixton and Toxteth riots of 1981, Janet Kay trilling Silly Games on Top of the Pops, Courtney Pine's Jazz Warriors, the London Community Gospel Choir, the Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra, Benjamin Zephaniah turning down an MBE, pirate radio, natty dread, funki dred, drum'n'bass, dubstep, grime, Dizzie Rascal.
  • (8) • Me t ro: nice pic of the gold iPhone 5S and a natty headline about known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns.
  • (9) Zheng and her friends have natty red sashes and a large banner that says: "Honoured to take part in the election for the people's congress".
  • (10) Luther starts in the UK on Tuesday, 9pm, BBC1 LUTHER: THE SERIES THREE LINEUP John Luther Gruff of voice, red of eye, natty of coat, the maverick DCI is good at solving crime, bad at life.
  • (11) DEPC is known to inhibit the ventilatory response to hypercapnia (E. Nattie.
  • (12) While space in the department may be free of explicit labels, the ebullient and youthful staff are clearly demarcated: female workers wear natty pink T-shirts with the slogan Team Toy on their backs, while men, inevitably, are in blue.
  • (13) With three minutes to go, they equalized through Tevez, playing in natty golfing shoes and cap.
  • (14) Craig doing normcore on the red carpet is a natty move because it gives away very little about the film.
  • (15) In this case, they have mistaken committed performances and some natty dialogue for pure motives on the part of its makers and, by extension, its audience.
  • (16) 64: 161-176, 1986) by a direct effect at the ventrolateral medulla (E. Nattie.
  • (17) Holden was compared to Billy Budd, Natty Bumppo, and Melville's Ishmael.
  • (18) The lyrics are cool – "My hips are ready to glow", "The groovy light will shine all night", etc – and there's a natty stab of Balkan horns at the end of each chorus (even the Spanish have thrown some Eastern influences into their song this year, in the hope of impressing the regional bloc vote).
  • (19) Dressed in natty black outfits with her dark hair pinned back, she cuts a handsome but stern figure.
  • (20) Grab a main at the laid-back Natti’s Thai Kitchen , with Thai goddess Natti cooking up authentic delights, the spicy tom yum is, well yum, just don’t order it hot, or you will cry.