Cheshire cat

English thumb|right|220px|the Cheshire cat in the 1866 publication of Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Etymology Term attested since at least the 1780s in the expression en grin like a Cheshire cat. The reason why en Cheshire was combined with en cat is disputed: see Cheshire Cat#Origins here for more information. Pronunciation en /ˌtʃɛʃə ˈkat/ UK en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Cheshire cat.wav Southern England en /ˌtʃɛʃɚ ˈkæt/ US en æt en Chesh ire cat Proper noun s 1 A fictional cat with a broad fixed grin, made popular by Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). en 1788 w:Francis Grose Slang dictionary#Famous slang dictionaries A classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue 2nd corrected and enlarged London CHESHIRE CAT. He grins like a Cheshire cat; said of any one who shows his teeth and gums in laughing. en 1865 w:Lewis Carroll w:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland “Please would you tell me,” said Alice, a little timidly, for she was not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, “why your cat grins like that?” “It’s a Cheshire-Cat,” said the Duchess, “and that’s why.” en 1967 w:Barbara Sleigh w:Jessamy 1993 Sevenoaks, Kent Bloomsbury 0 340 19547 9 127 ‘It’s almost as if we’ve gone silly with happiness,’ said Marcus two days later. ‘Everyone in the house going round grinning like a lot of Cheshire Cats! The family I mean.’ ‘And Jess,’ said Kitto quickly. ‘Oh well, Jess is as good as family,’ said Fanny comfortably. Jessamy said nothing, but she looked up quickly and her smile would have rivalled any Cheshire Cat. en en programming attributive A technique that involves hiding a class's data behind a pointer, so that the code remains binary-compatible even after future changes to members and functionality. en the Cheshire cat idiom en the Cheshire cat technique Derived terms en cheshirization grin like a Cheshire cat Translations fictional grinning cat Armenian: hy Չեշիրյան կատու Azerbaijani: az Çeşir pişiyi Basque: eu Cheshire Katua Catalan: ca Gat de Cheshire m Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 柴郡貓 Cháijùn māo, cmn 歙縣貓 Shèxiàn māo, cmn 笑臉貓 xiàoliǎn māo Czech: cs kočka Šklíba f Esperanto: eo Ĉeŝira kato Finnish: fi Irvikissa French: fr chat du Cheshire m, fr chat de Chester m Galician: gl Gato de Cheshire m German: de Cheshire-Katze f, de Grinsekatze f, de Edamer-Katze f Greek: el γάτα Τσέσαϊρ f Hebrew: he חָתוּל צֶ׳שִׁיֶר m khatúl Cheshiyér Hungarian: hu Cheshire macska, hu vigyorgó macska Icelandic: is Glottsýslukötturinn m Italian: it Stregatto m, it gatto del Cheshire m Japanese: ja チェシャ猫 チェシャねこ, Chesha neko Kazakh: kk Чешир мысығы Korean: ko ^체셔 고양이 Marathi: mr चेशर मांजर f Polish: pl Kot z Cheshire m, pl Kot-Dziwak z Cheshire m Portuguese: pt Gato de Cheshire m, pt Gato Que Ri m Romanian: ro Motanul Cheshire m Russian: ru Чеши́рский кот m Slovak: sk mačka Škľabka f Spanish: es Gato de Cheshire m, es Gato Risón m Swedish: sv Cheshirekatten c Ukrainian: uk Чеши́рський кіт m en terms derived from toponyms en Cats Fairy tale characters Lewis Carroll