Catty

Alternative forms

 * cattie

Pronunciation

 * Homophones: caddie, caddy (in some dialects)
 * Homophones: caddie, caddy (in some dialects)

Adjective

 * 1)  With subtle hostility in an effort to hurt, annoy, or upset.

Synonyms

 * bitchy, cattish, malicious, nasty, snide, spiteful

Etymology 2
From kati:, from the Chinese 斤 (Mandarin: 'jin').

Noun

 * 1) A (unit of) weight used in China, generally standardized as less than a kilogram.

Thesaurus
abusive, active, back-biting, belittling, bitchy, brisk, calumniatory, calumnious, catlike, cattish, censorious, contemptuous, contumelious, defamatory, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory, derogative, derogatory, despiteful, detractory, disparaging, evil, felid, feline, fretful, furtive, hateful, kittenish, leonine, libelous, lionlike, lively, malevolent, minimizing, nagging, naggy, nimble, peevish, pejorative, pettish, petulant, querulous, rancorous, resentful, ridiculing, scandalous, scurrile, scurrilous, shrewish, slanderous, slighting, spiteful, sprightly, spry, tigerish, vicious, vilifying, vixenish, vixenly, volant, wicked, zippy