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Cheshire cat definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a fictional cat with a broad fixed smile on its face; created by Lewis Carroll

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Cheshire, England Date: 1866 a broadly grinning cat in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If someone is grinning like a Cheshire cat or like the Cheshire cat, they are smiling very widely. He had a grin on his face like a Cheshire Cat. ...a Cheshire Cat smile. PHRASE

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

He grins like a Cheshire cat; said of anyone who shews his teeth and gums in laughing.