cheshire cat

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   a fictional cat with a broad fixed smile on its face; created by Lewis Carroll

   Broaderfictional character

Questions about cheshire cat

What does cheshire cat mean?

cheshire cat means "a fictional cat with a broad fixed smile on its face; created by Lewis Carroll".

Is cheshire cat a common word?

cheshire cat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.