Etymology

emojicat

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Today it means: A style of art and animation where anthropomorphic animal characters are drawn using emojis, popular in short-form video. Full definition →

First used 2021English cat ← Middle English cat ← Old English catt
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  1. Middle Chinese繪 (hwajH)
  2. Japanese絵 (e)
  3. Middle Chinese文字 (mjun dziH)
  4. Japanese文字 (monji)
  5. Japanese文字 (moji)
  6. Japanese絵文字 (emoji)
  7. Englishemoji
  8. Proto-Germanic*kattuz
  9. Proto-West Germanic*kattu
  10. Old Englishcatt
  11. Middle Englishcat
  12. Englishcat
  13. English todayemojicat

From emoji + cat.

First known use, by meaning

  • from 2021 An anthropomorphic animal character (usually a cat) drawn using emojis.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.