meerkitten

发音

UK /ˈmɪəkɪtən/

词形变化

meerkittens 复数 meerkittens

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An infant or juvenile meerkat.

    非正式

    I woke up at dawn covered from head to toe in a living fur blanket. Some meerkittens had discovered the warmer parts of my body.

词源

Formed by the compounding of meer- (the first element of meerkat) with kitten (“young cat”). The analysis of the -kat element of meerkat as cat is supported by meerkat’s ultimate derivation from the Middle Dutch meercatte, believed to have been formed from mere (“lake”, “sea”) + catte (“cat”).

来源：wiktionary