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hare and cat

  • 13-03-2010 2:41pm
    #1
    McGuigan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10 ✭


    hi
    does anyone know a nickname which is shared by a hare and a cat?


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  • #2
    zen260
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 508 ✭✭✭zen260


    hi mc,,,i know in scotland they share the word PUSS,,,for both hare and cat,,,dont know of any other word off the top of my head


  • #3
    McGuigan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10 ✭McGuigan


    thank you very much. great insight
    thanks


  • #4
    Ferreter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26 ✭Ferreter


    zen260 wrote: »
    hi mc,,,i know in scotland they share the word PUSS,,,for both hare and cat,,,dont know of any other word off the top of my head

    Exactly right


  • #5
    pedroeibar1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,108 ✭✭✭pedroeibar1


    Ferreter wrote: »
    Exactly right

    Not quite.

    Puss is common in rural England and less so in Ireland. In Scotland the country word for a hare is "malkin" or "mawkin" and is interchangeable between cat and hare.

    In Celtic mythology cats and hares are commonly linked e.g. black cats, the rabbit's foot charm was originally a hare's hind foot. Witches could change into hares/cats and in Irish tales witch-hares could only be caught by a black greyhound.

    Cowper the poet kept a few as pets and wrote an epitaph for them on death.
    "Old Tiney, surliest of his kind".
    Tiney lived to eight, but always stayed wild:
    Though duly from my hand he took
    His pittance every night
    He did it with a jealous look
    And when he could, would bite. "


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