cattish

She gets to whining and rubbing herself ’gainst my legs, acting cattish!

Instead, we have the word “catty”—or, more obscurely, “cattish,” or “cat-witted”—to mean spiteful and small-minded.

She had very good hair but grey eyes, that gave her a cattish appearance.

I had a cattish desire to fight him and let him know his place.

I don’t like people who write about the stars, and then turn around and say mean, nasty, cattish little things just because they’re jealous.