And, hey, Fielding's narrator works for a publishing company so there's lots of talk about books in Bridget Jones's Diary, and she borrowed the plot from Jane Austen (no word yet on when she'll be giving it back), so there's your highbrow literary connection right there.
The meow, however, can have so many different meanings and it can sometimes be difficult for a cat parent to interpret just what it is kitty is requesting. Many cat parents, however, have become excellent interpreters of their catsâ meows.ats communicate to humans in so many ways but the one way that almost always gets our attention is the meow. Of course there are lots of other vocalizations cats do that are usually quite easy to interpret such as the growl, hiss and spit.
âCats and dogsâ may come from the Greek expression cata doxa, which means âcontrary to experience or belief.â If it is raining cats and dogs, it is raining unusually or unbelievably hard. âCats and dogsâ may be a perversion of the now obsolete word catadupe. In old English, catadupe meant a cataract or waterfall. A version of catadupe existed in many old languages.In Latin, for example, catadupa. was borrowed from the classical Greek ÎºÎ±ÏÎ¬Î´Î¿ÏÏÎ¿Î¹, which referred to the cataracts of the Nile River.