Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various wild felines, such as the leopard or a wildcat.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
catamount . - Like a wildcat; ferocious; wildly savage: as, “cat-a-mountain looks,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the bushy-tailed European wildcat (
Felis silvestris ) resembling the domestic tabby and regarded as the ancestor of the domestic cat.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun bushy-tailed wildcat of Europe that resembles the domestic cat and is regarded as the ancestor of the domestic cat
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Alteration of cat of the mountain.]
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