"Kath" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Shortening.",
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Kath",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "name": "English diminutives of female given names",
          "parents": [
            "Diminutives of female given names",
            "Female given names",
            "Given names",
            "Diminutive nouns",
            "Names",
            "Nouns",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Lemmas",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1991, Margaret Atwood, Wilderness Tips, 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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A diminutive of the female given names Katherine, Kathleen, and related names."
      ],
      "id": "en-Kath-en-name-2sIxVGA9",
      "links": [
        [
          "diminutive",
          "diminutive"
        ],
        [
          "Katherine",
          "Katherine"
        ],
        [
          "Kathleen",
          "Kathleen"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-æθ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Kath"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Shortening.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Kath",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English diminutives of female given names",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Rhymes:English/æθ",
        "Rhymes:English/æθ/1 syllable"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1991, Margaret Atwood, Wilderness Tips, 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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A diminutive of the female given names Katherine, Kathleen, and related names."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "diminutive",
          "diminutive"
        ],
        [
          "Katherine",
          "Katherine"
        ],
        [
          "Kathleen",
          "Kathleen"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-æθ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Kath"
}