"Kat" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1991, Margaret Atwood, Wilderness Tips, →ISBN, page 36:",
          "text": "During her childhood she was a romanticized Katherine, dressed by her misty-eyed, fussy mother in dresses that looked like ruffled pillowcases. By high school she'd shed the frills and emerged as a bouncy, round-faced Kathy - - - At university she was Kath, blunt and no-bullshit in her Take-Back-the-Night jeans and checked shirt - - - When she ran away to England, she sliced herself down to Kat. It was economical, street-feline, and pointed as a nail.",
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        "A short form of the female given names Katharine and Katherine."
      ],
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        [
          "Katharine",
          "Katharine"
        ],
        [
          "Katherine",
          "Katherine"
        ]
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      "related": [
        {
          "english": "Catherine",
          "word": "List at"
        }
      ]
    }
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-æt"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Kat"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "related": [
    {
      "english": "Catherine",
      "word": "List at"
    }
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        "Rhymes:English/æt/1 syllable"
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          "ref": "1991, Margaret Atwood, Wilderness Tips, →ISBN, page 36:",
          "text": "During her childhood she was a romanticized Katherine, dressed by her misty-eyed, fussy mother in dresses that looked like ruffled pillowcases. By high school she'd shed the frills and emerged as a bouncy, round-faced Kathy - - - At university she was Kath, blunt and no-bullshit in her Take-Back-the-Night jeans and checked shirt - - - When she ran away to England, she sliced herself down to Kat. It was economical, street-feline, and pointed as a nail.",
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        "A short form of the female given names Katharine and Katherine."
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          "Katharine",
          "Katharine"
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      "rhymes": "-æt"
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  "word": "Kat"
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