Cat’s Melody (The).
Squalling.
“The children were playing the cat’s melody to keep their mother in countenance.”—W. B. Yeats: Fairy Tales of the Irish Peasantry, p. 238.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.