kittle cattle

noun

plural kittle cattle

usually plural in construction

chiefly dialectal

: a group of people that are difficult to manage and inclined to be capricious

kittle cattle who do rather unpredictable things

—Country Life

Word History

Etymology

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Rhymes for kittle cattle

• striatal
• battel
• battle
• brattle
• chattel
• prattle
• rattle
• tattle