catamountain

or cat-o'-moun·tain

[ kat-uh-moun-tn ]

noun

1. a wild animal of the cat family, as the European wildcat, the leopard, or panther.

Word History and Origins

Origin of catamountain¹

1400–50; variant of cat o' mountain, late Middle English cat of the mountaine

Example Sentences

"One owes it to the catamountain!" cried Grace.

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The wild beasts are lions, wolves, catamountains, and musk cats or civets.

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Is the profession to be disgraced by the entrance of a bear, a savage, a wild boy of the woods, who resembles a catamountain?

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The owl is abroad, the bat, and the toad, And so is the catamountain.

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