Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Light-headed; giddy; half-witted; extravagant.
- noun [With allusion to hell-cat.] A wicked or cruel creature.
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Examples
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I warrant your friend casts up again — he will come back again, like the ill shilling — he is not the sort of gear that tynes — a hellicat boy, running through the country with a blind fiddler and playing the fiddle to
Redgauntlet 2008
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“Hush, thou hellicat devil,” said her mother — “By Heaven! the other wench will be waking too.”
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It wasna for his spending, Im sure, for he just had a mutton-chop and a mug of ale, and maybe a glass or twa o wineand I asked him to drink tea wi mysell, and didna put that into the bill; and he took nae supper, for he said he was defeat wi travel a the night aforeI dare say now it had been on some hellicat errand or other.
Chapter XXXII 1917
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` ` I'se tell thee what thou is now --- thou's a crazed hellicat Bess
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` ` Hush, thou hellicat devil, '' said her mother --- ` ` By Heaven! the other wench will be waking too. ''
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I daresay now it had been on some hellicat errand or other. '
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801
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I daresay now it had been on some hellicat errand or other. '
Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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But I think my heart was e'en sairer, when I saw that hellicat trooper, Tam Halliday, kissing Jenny Dennison afore my face.
Old Mortality, Volume 1. Walter Scott 1801
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I warrant your friend casts up again -- he will come back again, like the ill shilling -- he is not the sort of gear that tynes -- a hellicat boy, running through the country with a blind fiddler and playing the fiddle to
Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801
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I daresay now it had been on some hellicat errand or other. '
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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