different between catperson vs kemonomimi

English

Etymology

cat +? person

Noun

catperson (plural catpeople)

1. (fiction) An anthropomorphic feline, or an individual who has characteristics of a cat on an otherwise human body, such as cat ears and a cat tail.
   • 2012, Timothy Rowlands, Video Game Worlds: Working at Play in the Culture of EverQuest, Left Coast Press (2012), ?ISBN, page 69:

     I haven't seen one of my earliest acquaintances in the game, a catperson berserker named Silverkat, since Ugeta was just a lowbie.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:catperson.

Synonyms

• nekomimi

Hyponyms

• catboy
• catgirl

Translations

Anagrams

• Capertons, co-parents, coparents, rent-a-cops

English

Etymology

From Japanese ?? (kemonomimi), from ? (kemono, “animal”) + ? (mimi, “ear”).

Noun

kemonomimi (plural kemonomimi)

1. (chiefly Japanese fiction) A humanoid fictional character who possesses animal ears and/or tails.

Hyponyms

• (fictional character with cat features): nekomimi, catperson

See also

• kemonomimi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• furry
• anthropomorphism
• zoomorphism
• nahualism

Japanese

Romanization

kemonomimi

1. R?maji transcription of ?????