emojicat

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noun

A style of art and animation where anthropomorphic animal characters are drawn using emojis, popular in short-form video.

OriginEnglish cat ← Middle English cat ← Old English catt →
First used 2021Scrabble 19
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Meanings

nounemojicat (countable and uncountable, plural emojicats)

plural emojicats · alternative emoji cat

  1. countableuncountableA style of art and animation where anthropomorphic animal characters are drawn using emojis, popular in short-form video.
  2. countableuncountableAn anthropomorphic animal character (usually a cat) drawn using emojis.First known use 2021

Origin

  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. Englishemojicat

From emoji + cat.

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APA

emojicat. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/emojicat

MLA

“emojicat.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/emojicat. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “emojicat,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/emojicat.

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