catchy

/ˈkatʃi/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈkatʃi/

catchy

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: IPA vowel pattern
Ending: Final y vowel sound

cat - chy -> catchy

Myanmar meaning

(adj) တေးဂီတ) နားဝင်ချို၍ မှတ်မိလွယ် သော။

Full entry

catch /kætʃ/ v (pt, pp caught /kↄ:t/)

၁။ လှမ်း၍ဖမ်းသည်။
I threw a ball to her and she caught it. ❍ Our dog likes catching biscuits in its mouth.
၂။ လိုက်ဖမ်းသည်။ မိသည်။ ဖမ်းမိသည်။
catch a thief ❍ Cats catch mice. ❍ How many fish did you catch? ❍ I caught him (ie met him and stopped him) just as he was leaving the building. ❍ catch (hold of) sb by the arm/throat/scruff of the neck.
၃။ တစ်စုံတစ်ခု လုပ်နေသည်ကို အမှတ်တမဲ့ တွေ့သည်၊ မိ သည်။ I caught her smoking in the bathroom. ❍ I caught a boy stealing apples from the garden. ❍ You won't catch me working (ie I would never work) on a Sunday! ❍ I caught him staring at me. ❍ He caught himself wondering whether he'd made a mistake. ❍ The illness can be treated provided it's caught (ie discovered) early enough. ❍ You've caught me at a bad time.
၄။ မီသည်။ catch a bus/plane/train ❍ catch the post (ie post letters before the box is emptied).
၅။ အချိန်မီအုပ်မိသည်။ I was hoping to catch you at home.
၆။ (infml esp US ) ကြည့်ရှုသည်။ နားဆင်သည်။ တက်ရောက် သည်။ Let's eat now and maybe we could catch a movie later.
၇။ ဖျတ်ခနဲမြင်လိုက်သည်။ အနံ့ရလိုက်သည်။ I caught a look of surprise on her face. ❍ He caught a whiff of her perfume.
၈။ ~ (sth) (in/on sth) ငြိသည်။ တိုက်မိသည်။ (ခတ်)မိသည်။ Her dress caught on a nail. ❍ The lock won't catch (ie cannot be fastened). ❍ He caught his thumb in the door. ❍ He caught his foot on a tree root and fell.
၉။ ရောဂါရသည်။ catch (a) cold ❍ catch flu/pneumonia/bronchitis.
၁၀။ သဘောပေါက်သည်။ Sorry, I didn't quite catch what you said. ❍ I don't catch your meaning.
၁၁။ ထိသည်။ ထိုးသည်။ The stone caught him on the side of the head. ❍ She caught him a blow on the chin.
၁၂။ မီးစွဲသည်။ မီးညိသည်။ These logs are wet: they won't catch.
၁၃။ မိအောင်ရေးဆွဲသည်။ The artist has caught her smile perfectly.
၁၄။ ခရစ်ကက် ကစားရာတွင် ဘောလုံးမြေမကျမီ ဖမ်းမိသွား၍ ဘောလုံးရိုက်သူထွက်ရသည်။
n
၁။ ဖမ်းခြင်း။ ဖမ်းမိသည့်ပမာဏ။ a difficult catch ❍ a huge catch of fish.
၂။ (infml ) (ယောကျ်ား၊ ရည်းစားအဖြစ်) ဖမ်းရန်သင့်တော်သူ။ He's a good catch (ie worth getting as a boyfriend or husband).
၃။ ချိတ်။ The catch on my handbag is broken.
၄။ မြှုပ်ကွက်။ The house is very cheap. There must be a catch somewhere.
❏ catch-all n
၁။ ဟိုဟာသည်ဟာ။ ဟိုဒင်းသည်ဒင်း။
၂။ (US ) ဗြုတ်စဗျင်းတောင်း ထည့်စရာ။
❏ catch sb's attention/eye [IDM ] အာရုံစိုက်စေသည်။ မျက်စိကျစေသည်။ Can you catch the waiter's eye? ❍ A newspaper headline caught his attention.
❏ catch one's breath [IDM ] ထိတ်လန့်၍ အသက်ရှူမှား သည်။ He caught his breath in surprise.
❏ catch one's death (of cold) [IDM ] (infml ) အကြီး အကျယ် အအေးမိသည်။ Don't go out without a coat: you'll catch your death.
❏ catcher n ဘေ့စ်ဘောကစားပွဲတွင် ရိုက်သူနောက်ကနေ၍ ဘောလုံးဖမ်းသူ။ ❍ BASEBALL
❏ catch fire [IDM ] မတော်တဆ မီးစွဲသည်။ She was standing too close to the fireplace and her dress caught fire.
❏ catching adj (ရောဂါ)ကူးစက်လွယ်သော။
❏ catch it [IDM ] (infml ) အပြစ်ပေးခံရသည်။ အဆူအဆဲ ခံရသည်။ If your father finds you here you'll really catch it!
❏ catch the light [IDM ] မီးရောင်အောက်တွင် ပိုလှသည်။ မီးစားသည်။
❏ catch sb napping [IDM ] အငိုက်မိသည်။ They were caught napping by the speed of the opposition.
❏ catch sb on the hop [IDM ] ခြေအကြွတွင် ဖြတ်တိုက် နိုင်ခဲ့သည်။ The rush for fuel caught petrol companies on the hop.
❏ catch sb on the wrong foot [IDM ] (Brit ) … တဖျင့်တပါးရှိချိန် ဝင်အုပ်မိသည်။
❏ catch on (to sth) [PHRV ] (infml ) လိုက်မီသည်။ သဘော ပေါက်သည်။ He is very quick/slow to catch on.
❏ catch on (with sb) [PHRV ] (infml ) ခေတ်စားသည်။ Mini-skirts first caught on in the 1960s.
❏ catch sb out [PHRV ] (Brit )
၁။ မသိ၊ မတတ်ကြောင်း ပေါ်စေသည်။ They tried to catch her out with a difficult question.
၂။ (usu pssive) ဘာလုပ်ရမှန်းမသိ အကျပ်ရိုက်စေ သည်။ Many investors were caught out by the fall in share prices.
❏ catch sb red-handed [IDM ] လက်ပူးလက်ကြပ်မိသည်။
❏ catch sight of sb/sth [IDM ] ရိပ်ခနဲမြင်လိုက်သည်။ She caught sight of a car in the distance.
❏ catch the sun [IDM ] နေလောင်သည်။ Your back looks sore—you've really caught the sun today.
❏ catch-22 /kætʃ twenti 'tu:/ n [U] [IDM ] (sl ) (ကြာအေး အမေရိုက်၍) လွတ်လမ်းမမြင်သော အခြေအနေ။ the catch-22 situation facing homeless people who can't get a job without a place to live, but can't afford to pay rent without a job. See also VICIOUS CIRCLE
❏ catch up (with sb); catch sb up [PHRV ] (Brit ) ရှေ့ ကလူကိုမီသွားသည်။ Go on in front. I'll soon catch you up/catch up (with you). ❍ After missing a term through illness he had to work hard to catch up (with the others).
❏ catch up on sth [PHRV ]
၁။ မပြီးပြတ်သေးသော အလုပ် အတွက် အချိန်ပိုလုပ်သည်။ အလုပ်ကြွေးဆပ်သည်။ I've got a lot of work to catch up on.
၂။ မသိခဲ့သည်များကို သိအောင် လုပ်သည်။ Come over for a chat so we can catch up on each other's news.
❏ be/get caught up in sth [PHRV ] စိတ်ဝင်စားသည် (သို့) ပါဝင်ပတ်သက်သည်။ She was caught up in the anti-nuclear movement.
❏ catch sb with their pants/trousers down [IDM ] (infml ) ကိုးရိုးကားရားရှိချိန် အလစ်ဖမ်းမိသည်။ အလစ်မိသည်။
❏ catchy adj (-ier , -iest ) (တေးဂီတ) နားဝင်ချို၍ မှတ်မိလွယ် သော။

More examples

She tossed the packet of crisps to Kate, who caught it with one hand.
‘Can I borrow your pen?’ ‘Here, catch!’
Anne stayed close enough to catch the child if he fell.
Put a bucket over there to catch the drips as they fall.
She raced to catch the toddler before he could make it out of the front gate.
‘Can’t catch me, ’ her brother shouted as he ran up the stairs.
Jack caught her as she made for the door.
[catch someone by the wrist/elbow/sleeve etc] : With one swift movement, he caught her by the wrist.
[catch hold of someone/something] : She caught hold of his arm and pulled him back.
The police say they’re doing all they can to catch the culprits.
I caught the next train back to London.
If we want to catch that bus we’ll have to leave right now.
[have a train/bus/plane etc to catch] : I have a train to catch, so we have to finish by 4.30.
A device used for catching flies
We rescued a rabbit caught in a trap.
Wolves hunt in packs, using careful strategies to catch their prey.
Drift nets are used mainly for catching tuna.
[freshly/locally caught] : Freshly caught trout
[catch someone doing something] : Several times she’d caught him staring at her.
[catch someone red-handed] : Diana was caught red-handed taking money from her mother’s purse.
[catch someone in the act (of doing something)] : Burglars who are caught in the act have little chance of escaping punishment.
[catch someone at it] : They’ve been trying to catch her at it, but she’s too clever.
The railway companies had all been caught completely unprepared by the sudden snowfalls.
[catch someone at a bad moment/time] : I’ve obviously caught you at a bad moment. I’ll come back later.

Synonyms

no-win situation, vicious circle, Catch-22, accept, apprehend, arrest, bag, become aware of, become infected with, board, bolt, break out with, buckle, bump, bump into, bust, capture, clamp, clasp, claw, clench, climb on, cling, clip, clutch, collar, come down with, come upon, comprehend, contract, conundrum, cop, corral, cotch, crash into, deception, decoy, descry, detain, detect, develop, difficulty, discern, discover, drawback, encounter, ensnare, entangle, entrap, expose, fall ill with, fall prey to, fall victim to, fastener, fastening, feel, find, find out, fly in the ointment, follow, gather, get, get one's fingers on, get trapped in, glom, glove, go after, go down with, grab, grab hold of, grasp, grip, hasp, hear, hidden disadvantage, hit, hit upon, hitch, hold, hold on to, hook, hook and eye, hop on, impediment, incur, joke, jump, knock, lasso, latch, lay hold of, make, meet with, nab, nail, net, notice, obstacle, overhaul, overtake, pass, perceive, pick, pick up, pluck, pounce on, prehend, problem, puzzle, puzzler, ram, reach, receive, recognize, run down, secure, see, seize, sense, sicken, snag, snap, snare, snarl, snatch, spot, stick, strike, stumbling block, succumb to, suffer from, surprise, take, take captive, take hold of, take hostage, take in, take prisoner, take unawares, tangle, trap, trick, turn up, understand, unmask

Antonyms

advantage, be immune, benefit, deny, depart, disallow, disbelieve, discourage, disentangle, dissuade, drop, exclude, fail, fall behind, free, give, key, leave, let go, let off, liberate, loose, loosen, lose, misinterpret, misplace, miss, mistake, misunderstand, neglect, offer, overlook, push, receive, refuse, reject, release, stop, unfasten, veto