It is a way of calling the cat ("domestic feline"), especially those with a flat nose, such as exotics or Persians, or also anyone who has their aristocratic behavior. There are other colloquial meanings, but they are associated with those of "gato", "gata", or their characteristics or some sexual allusion, as in the cuplé 'Tango del morrongo' in the zarzuela 'Enseñanza libre' (Guillermo Perrín Vico and Miguel de Palacios Brugada, 1901).
