catnip

Definitions

Examples

• This interactive toy moves like a real fish and even has a catnip pouch to keep your cat happy.

• Studies have shown that catnip may be as effective at deterring insects as the widely used synthetic repellent diethyl-m-toluamide.

• A pot might be better, he says, since catnip can spread like a weed, taking over a garden.

• Mosquitoes were also less likely to take blood from a human hand coated with catnip.

• Fruit flies were less likely to lay eggs on the side of a petri dish that was treated with catnip or its active component, nepetalactone.

• In a culture that worships celebrities while pretending to disdain them, the Sony emails are catnip for the masses.

• Coded references to risqué and sexual matters were catnip to the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Cole Porter.

• The exchange was catnip for reporters, and Republican political operatives passed the clip around with glee.

• That message was like catnip and I am the worst kind of kitten: I love trouble.

• BEST FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY Movie stars who prove they can really act on Broadway are catnip for Tony voters.

• Then she will throw herself against it sideways and rub against it like a tom-cat in a catnip bed.

• The house cat, fat and lazy, had found a little patch of catnip that had started showing signs of growth.

• The catnip seemed to fill him with a spring madness that induced all kinds of foolish excesses.

• She led this cat up to her catnip bed, and watched her kindly, while she rolled and rubbed herself in it.

• Catnip is a favorite plant with cats, and Miss Laura always kept some of it growing for Malta.