Meanings
- humorousSomebody, referring to a feline.
Once in America, cats too, left behind their pasts — in Bubastis and Ayudha, in Nikko and Ankara — and became somecat!
2004, Georgie Anne Geyer, When Cats Reigned Like Kings: On the Trail of the Sacred Cats, page 1482 more examples
They pulled desperately, one against the other, and Mitsi tried to help by planting her feet forwards and pushing back from it strenuously with her back legs, rump in the air, realizing that somecat was trying to help.
2002, Sandra Handerek, The Amazing Secret Adventures of Molly's Podge, page 74Flea explained that a flâneur is someone (or somecat, or maybe even somedog) who wanders the streets and bridges and alleys of the city just to see what there is to see.
2017, Mo Willems, Diva and Flea: A Parisian Tale, page 14
Origin
From some + cat, by analogy with somebody.
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somecat. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/somecat
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