"cat's melody" meaning in English

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        {
          "ref": "1860 William Carleton \"The Three Wishes; An Irish legend\" Irish Life and Character; or, Tales and stories of the Irish peasantry p. 333 (London: Henry Lea)",
          "text": "The wife within is sending the curses thick and heavy on me, and the childre's playing the cat's melody to keep her in comfort."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1926, Hugh MacDiarmid, A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle:",
          "text": "You vegetable cat's melody!\nYour Concert Miaulant is\nA triumph o' discord shairly",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Adrian Barnes, “Day 4; Accidental Colours”, in Nod, London: Titan, →ISBN:",
          "text": "'This is completely absurd,' I heard him say, his voice barely audible above the screaming that had now started. 'Believe me, I never —'\nThen all we could see was writhing.\nAnd sounds I don't care to try to represent or transcribe: what used to be called the cat's melody.",
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      "glosses": [
        "a cacophony"
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        "(Ireland, Scotland, dated) a cacophony"
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  "word": "cat's melody"
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          "ref": "1860 William Carleton \"The Three Wishes; An Irish legend\" Irish Life and Character; or, Tales and stories of the Irish peasantry p. 333 (London: Henry Lea)",
          "text": "The wife within is sending the curses thick and heavy on me, and the childre's playing the cat's melody to keep her in comfort."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1926, Hugh MacDiarmid, A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle:",
          "text": "You vegetable cat's melody!\nYour Concert Miaulant is\nA triumph o' discord shairly",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Adrian Barnes, “Day 4; Accidental Colours”, in Nod, London: Titan, →ISBN:",
          "text": "'This is completely absurd,' I heard him say, his voice barely audible above the screaming that had now started. 'Believe me, I never —'\nThen all we could see was writhing.\nAnd sounds I don't care to try to represent or transcribe: what used to be called the cat's melody.",
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