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

  • 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

  • “Hush, thou hellicat devil,” said her mother — “By Heaven! the other wench will be waking too.”

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

  • It wasna for his spending, I’m sure, for he just had a mutton-chop and a mug of ale, and maybe a glass or twa o’ wine—and 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 afore—I dare say now it had been on some hellicat errand or other.

    Chapter XXXII 1917

  • ` ` I'se tell thee what thou is now --- thou's a crazed hellicat Bess

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

  • ` ` Hush, thou hellicat devil, '' said her mother --- ` ` By Heaven! the other wench will be waking too. ''

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

  • I daresay now it had been on some hellicat errand or other. '

    Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

  • I daresay now it had been on some hellicat errand or other. '

    Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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