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Macavity - The Mystery Cat: Glossary

English Poem: Macavity - The Mystery Cat by T.S. Eliot.

Glossary

defy            – to resist or to challenge

bafflement            – total confusion

Scotland Yard      – the headquarters of London Metropolitan Police Service

Flying Squad        – a police force ready to plunge into action

levitation              – the action of rising and floating in air

fakir            – a holy person who lives on alms and has the power to levitate

ginger                   – alert and cautious

fiend           – demon

feline           – cat

depravity    – evil quality

larder – cupboard for storing food

rifle   – ransack to steal

Peke  – a Pekinese dog

stifle                – to suppress someone from acting

trellis              – wooden bar used as a support for creepers

Admiralty   – a Government Department that administered the British Navy

deceitfulness – cunningness

suavity           – confidence and sophistication

alibi                – a claim of evidence that one was elsewhere when a crime was committed

 

Mungojerrie and Griddlebone – fictional characters specialised in petty thefts and mischief in T.S. Eliot’s book ‘Old Possom’s Book of Practical Cats’

 

Napoleon of Crime– the commanding leader of criminals


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