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  • noun The giving birth of kittens

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Examples

  • They are sitting on the floppy couch-a couch that is minus a cushion, a condition dating from last year's notorious Case of the Vanishing Throw Cushion (case solved: Daisy had pirated the paisleyed foam to fashion a kittening nook in the basement for Kittykat).

    Shampoo Planet Coupland, Douglas 1992

  • For my cat's kittening decided me to go and call on the bride, in hopes she wanted

    My Lady Ludlow Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

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