"Cathy" meaning in English

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      "form": "Cathie",
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  "pos": "name",
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          "ref": "1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "It was named Catherine, but he never called it the name in full, as he had never called the first Catherine short, probably because Heathcliff had a habit of doing so. The little one was always Cathy, it formed to him a distinction from the mother, and yet, a connection with her; ( - - - )",
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          "text": "'Cathy sounds like the name of a truck-stop waitress,' she overheard her father-in-law tell Adam after they returned from their honeymoon. 'Tell her to call herself Cat and, for Christ's sake, get her to stop biting her lip all the time.'",
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      "ipa": "/ˈkæθi/"
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  "word": "Cathy"
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      "form": "Cathys",
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      "form": "Cathies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "Cathi",
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        "alternative"
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    {
      "form": "Cathie",
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        "alternative"
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    },
    {
      "form": "Kathi",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
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    },
    {
      "form": "Kathie",
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        "alternative"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "Kathy",
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          "text": "It was named Catherine, but he never called it the name in full, as he had never called the first Catherine short, probably because Heathcliff had a habit of doing so. The little one was always Cathy, it formed to him a distinction from the mother, and yet, a connection with her; ( - - - )",
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      "ipa": "/ˈkæθi/"
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