Definition of "kittenish" []

• Playfully coy and frisky. (adjective)

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• "I still had the wide brow and pointed chin which Gerald had called kittenish, but there was little of the kitten about me now."
• "I can't find one Hollywood star that has remotely that kind of kittenish sexuality today."
• "I can't find one Hollywood star that has remotely Hayworth's kind of kittenish sexuality today."