What is a smiling cat called?

Often called the smiling cat of France, the Chartreux has a sweet, smiling expression. This sturdy, powerful cat has a distinctive blue coat with a resilient wooly undercoat. Historically known as fine mousers with strong hunting instincts, the Chartreux enjoys toys that move.

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What is Alice Wonderland cat called?

Cheshire Cat, fictional character, a cat notable for its broad grin and its ability to disappear and reappear at will, in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll.

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What is another name for the Cheshire Cat?

Names : Cheshire cat, Chafouin or Chester cat. First apparition : in the novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll in 1865.

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Why is it called Cheshire cat?

There are many reports that Carroll found inspiration for the name and expression of the Cheshire Cat in the 16th-century sandstone carving of a grinning cat, on the west face of St Wilfrid's Church tower in Grappenhall, a village adjacent to his birthplace in Daresbury, Warrington.

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What does Cheshire cat mean in slang?

phrase. If someone is grinning like a Cheshire cat or like the Cheshire cat, they are smiling very widely. He had a grin on his face like a Cheshire Cat.

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What is a cat like smile?

Cats do smile, but not in the way that humans do – while we bare a grin to show our happiness, cats smile with their eyes, says Marci Koski, a feline behavior and training consultant. Cats smile by narrowing their eyes, shutting them partly or completely. Their pupils may also be dilated while doing this.

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What is a chessy cat slang?

chessy cat [Slang] Cheshire cat, a proverbial grinning cat from Cheshire, England, especially one described in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. conformity the condition or fact of being in harmony or agreement; correspondence; congruity; similarity.

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What does the Cheshire Cat smile mean?

To grin like a Cheshire cat means to smile broadly. Some definitions of the term stipulate that the smile must be so broad as to expose the gums. The idiom grin like a Cheshire cat may have the connotation that the person who is grinning is in possession of knowledge that the beholder is not aware of.

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What does a Cheshire cat grin mean?

Smile broadly, especially in a self-satisfied way. For example, John ended the set with a beautiful serve, an ace, and couldn't help grinning like a Cheshire cat.

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What is the story of the Cheshire Cat?

The Cheshire Cat is a character in Lewis Carroll's novel Alice in Wonderland. He has the unique ability to appear and disappear whenever he so chooses. And most of all, he is always grinning ear to ear, even as he fades away. He always helps Alice when she doesn't understand the world around her.

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What is the Cheshire Cat's famous line?

"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there." This oft-cited but not-quite-accurate quote is from the Lewis Carroll's classic children's tale, Alice in Wonderland.

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What is the Cheshire Cat daughter name?

Katherine “Kitty” Melody Cheshire is a 2013-introduced and all-around character. She's the daughter of the Cheshire Cat, the character from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

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What breed is a Cheshire cat?

A British Blue male, showing the classic "Cheshire Cat smile" for which the breed is renowned. The British Shorthair is a relatively powerful-looking large cat, having a broad chest, strong thick-set legs with rounded paws and a medium-length, blunt-tipped tail.

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What is the Cheshire Cat's mental illness?

zooming at some topics of this novel, we come up to understand that Little Alice suffers from Hallucinations and Personality Disorders, the White Rabbit from General Anxiety Disorder “I'm late”, the Cheshire Cat is schizophrenic, as he disappears and reappears distorting reality around him and subsequently driving ...

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What is the name of an immature cat?

An immature cat is called a kitten (which is also an alternative name for young rats, rabbits, hedgehogs, beavers, squirrels and skunks). In medieval Britain, the word kitten was interchangeable with the word catling.

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What kind of cat is Garfield?

Garfield is an orange tabby cat of an unspecified breed. The official word from his creator, Jim Davis, is that Garfield isn't one particular breed or even based off of a singular cat. Some people theorize that he could be a Persian, British Shorthair, or Maine Coon.

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Is the Cheshire Cat always smiling?

Its most well-known feature is its smile. In its final appearance, the Cheshire Cat disappears starting at its tail until only its smile remains. This prompts Alice to muse on how she has seen a cat without a smile, but never a smile without a cat.

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Why is the Cheshire Cat so popular?

Cheshire Cat is an imaginary cat or feline character which popularly appears in Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The cat is popularly known between the fans of the fiction for its distinct mischievous grin.

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Is the Cheshire Cat a villain?

The Cheshire Cat is sly, tricky, deceitful, manipulative and mischievous. He does not practice his evil-doings out of ill-intent per say, but rather just to amuse himself. He's vastly unpredictable, treacherous and whimsical, and is always changing between a supportive ally and a devious foe.

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Where did smile cat come from?

The Smile Cats are a reccurring species in the series of horror shorts created by 3D animator LIGHTS ARE OFF on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.

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What is a synonym for Cheshire grin?

grin from ear to ear. smile from ear to ear. smile widely. crack a smile. snigger.

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What is a fat kitty slang?

fat cat. A wealthy and privileged person, as in This neighborhood, with its million-dollar estates, is full of fat cats. This term originally meant “a rich contributor to a political campaign,” and while this usage persists, it now is often applied more broadly, as in the example. [

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What is slang for cat girl?

Specifically, the catgirl (a woman with cat ears, whiskers, and sometimes paws or a tail) is referred to as a neko. Neko is also Japanese slang for “bottom,” or the submissive/receiving partner in a homosexual relationship.

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What is a fat cat in British slang?

In the British printed media, a fat cat is often depicted as a cat-faced, corpulent, middle-aged man clad in a pin striped suit and holding or smoking a thick cigar, representing a venal banker or a high earner executive or "captain of industry".

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