1) Exclusively Saxon word 2) Exclusively Anglo word 3) Fantasy creature 4) Fictional feline 5) Fictional henchman 6) He fades with a smile 7) Lewis Carroll character 8) Mersey swimmer 9) To smile or grin inscrutably 10) Word of purely Anglo origin 11) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins
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The Cheshire Cat (ər or ɪər) is a fictional cat popularised by Lewis Carroll in Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland and known for its distinctive mischievous grin. ==Origins== A classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue (1788) by Francis Grose (The Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged, London) contains the following entry: `CHESHIRE CAT. He gr.....
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The term 'grinning like a Cheshire cat' is coined to describe a wide cheesy smile. The term originates from olden times when cheese was made in the form of cats in Cheshire, and hence the term provides the allusion to a cheesy grin. The phrase was popularised in the book 'Alice in Wonderland' where the character of the Cheshire cat, a cat with a pe...
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n] - a fictional cat with a broad fixed smile on its face
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noun a fictional cat with a broad fixed smile on its face; created by Lewis Carroll
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a constantly grinning cat in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. · to smile or grin inscrutably.
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