Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V).
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¶KATTERZEM, n. “A man willing to go out dining at a moment's notice” (Sc. 19th c. J. R. Ware Passing English (1909) 161), a parasite.
[Ad. Fr. quatorzième, fourteenth, an additional guest being often invited to avert bad luck where a party orig. consisted of thirteen persons.]
