terror to cats n.
an ill-behaved small boy.
New North-West (Deer lodge, MT) 22 Dec. 1/7: [headline] A Terror to Cats / The Bad Boy Makes Things Lively for a Church Committee. | ||
Detroit Free Press in (1909) 242/2: Pa says I am a terror to cats. Every time pa says anything it gives me a new idea. I tell you pa has got a great brain, but sometimes he don’t have it with him. | ||
Dundee Eve. Teleg. 14 Dec. 8/1: I was a terror to cats. I thought what fun there is in cats, and me and my chum went to stealing cats right off. |