Such a cat might be a man (8)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

A clue-as-definition: Manx cats are TAILLESS – taking the last letter or ‘tail’ from Manx leaves us with ‘man’ – a man has no tail, but might, if he were, say, a jazz fan be referred to as a ‘cat’