HOW TO PRONOUNCE
Cheshire Cat
/ˌtʃɛʃɚ ˈkæt/
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What does Cheshire Cat mean?
proper noun
- A fictional cat with a broad fixed grin, made popular by Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).
- A technique that involves hiding a class's data behind a pointer, so that the code remains binary-compatible even after future changes to members and functionality.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌtʃɛʃɚ ˈkæt/
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“It’s a Cheshire cat,” said the Duchess, “and that’s why. Pig!”
No more peculiar sight can be imagined than the sardonically toothsome countenance of a wart-hog fading slowly in the dimness of a deep burrow, a good deal like Alice's Cheshire Cat.
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A quarter of an hour later they reappeared, the horse cantering quietly, and the boy, still grinning like a Cheshire cat, sitting quite loosely, with his legs dangling, as though he were in an arm-chair.