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Synonyms for cougar

Grammar : Noun
Spell : koo-ger
Phonetic Transcription : ˈku gər

Définition of cougar

Origin :
  • 1774, from French couguar, Buffon's adaption (influenced by jaguar) of a word the Portuguese picked up in Brazil as çuçuarana, perhaps from Tupi susuarana, from suasu "deer" + rana "false." Another proposed source is Guarani guaçu ara. Evidently the cedillas dropped off the word before Buffon got it. Slang sense of "older woman (35-plus) who seeks younger males as sex partners" is attested by 2002; said in some sources to have originated in Canada, probably from some reference to predatory feline nature.
  • noun large cat
Example sentences :
  • What between the blow of the cougar and the force of the fall, the big-horn was dead.
  • Extract from : « Two Arrows » by William O. Stoddard
  • Two Arrows wiped the blood of the cougar from the blade of his lance.
  • Extract from : « Two Arrows » by William O. Stoddard
  • But now the hounds were too quick, and in a trice they had the cougar surrounded.
  • Extract from : « American Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt » by Edward Stratemeyer
  • No cougar stalking its prey could have been more lithely wary.
  • Extract from : « Oh, You Tex! » by William Macleod Raine
  • Perhaps the coyotes were over there; or could it be a cougar or a bear?
  • Extract from : « The Story of Wool » by Sara Ware Bassett
  • We stood together in a group, and I looked in vain for the cougar.
  • Extract from : « Adventures of a Young Naturalist » by Lucien Biart
  • The cougar had been struck in the forehead, and no longer breathed.
  • Extract from : « Adventures of a Young Naturalist » by Lucien Biart
  • Had the cougar got away, or was he still within the thicket?
  • Extract from : « The Hunters' Feast » by Mayne Reid
  • He would not have been a cougar if he had not made a spring in seizing upon his prey.
  • Extract from : « The Talking Leaves » by William O. Stoddard
  • It was now too late to relieve them—the cougar was within a hundred yards of the camp!
  • Extract from : « The Boy Hunters » by Captain Mayne Reid

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