catself

plural catselves

1. nonce wordA feline self; the individual nature of a cat.

   "I'm turning into me catself, then," said John. "Minus the fleas!" and he started changing.

   2007, Alice J. Capen, The Secret Adventures of John, Paul, George and Ringo

   3 more examples

   I am stroking the old cat, Moshy, […] until there comes a moment when she is no longer aware of who she is and who I am, she is just her primordial passionate catself in the throes of cosmic movement, and in that instant of forgetting she lashes at me with fangs and claws […]

   2003, Brett Bailey, The Plays of Miracle & Wonder, page 37

   She personified the unique catself, owning who she was. She spoke her mind in cateze and never let me stray far from my writing path.

   2009, Joanna Devrais, Hearthstories: A Modern Woman's Quest for the Essential Self, page xiii

   […] and catwrapping her fat cattail / round her catself to her catnose / where her cattail would filter catair […]

   2017, Elizabeth E. Marshall, Pathways, page 76