cougar

English

Etymology

French couguar, from Portuguese suçuarana, perhaps from Tupian (compare sɨwasuarána (cervine)) or Guaraní.

Noun

cougar (plural cougars)

1. A mountain lion; Puma concolor.
2. (North America, slang) A woman of middle age who actively seeks the casual, often sexual, companionship of younger males, typically less than 35 years old; by implication a “sexual predator”.

   A cougar approached Warren at the Palomino Club and asked for a dance.

Synonyms

• (Puma concolor): catamount, catamountain, mountain lion, painter, panther, puma
• (sexually active middle-aged woman): MILF, older woman

Hyponyms

• Florida panther (a subspecies of mountain lion)

Translations

Puma concolor

Armenian: կատվառյուծ (hy) (katvaṙyuç) Bulgarian: пума (bg) f. Cherokee: ᏢᏓᏥ (chr) (tlvdatsi) Chinese: Mandarin: 美洲狮 (cmn) (měizhōushī) Danish: puma (da) c. Dutch: bergleeuw (nl) m. Esperanto: pumo (eo) Finnish: puuma (fi) French: cougar (fr) German: Puma (de) m., Berglöwe (de) m., Silberlöwe (de) m. Greek: κούγκαρ (el) (koúgkar) n. Hopi: toho Hungarian: puma (hu) Ido: pumao (io) Indonesian: puma, singa gunung Ineseño: tukʼeʼm Interlingua: puma (ia)

Japanese: ピューマ (ja) (pyuuma) Javanese: puma (jv) Nahuatl: miztli (nah) Navajo: náshdóítsoh Occitan: puma (oc) f. Ojibwe: mishibizhii Persian: شیر کوهی (fa) (šire kuhi), پوما (fa) (pumâ) Polish: kuguar (pl) Portuguese: onça-parda (pt) f., puma (pt) m., suçuarana (pt) m., leão-baio (pt) m., leão-da-montanha (pt) m. Romanian: pumă (ro) f. Russian: кугуар (ru) (kuguár) m., пума (ru) (púma) f. Slovene: puma (sl) f. Spanish: puma (es) m., león americano (es) m., león bayo (es) m., mitzli (es), onza bermeja (es) f. Swedish: puma (sv) c.

slang: woman of middle age who seeks younger men

Finnish: kotka (fi)

French: cougar (fr) Portuguese: loba (pt) f.

External links

• Cougar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Cougar (disambiguation)

See also

• cradle-snatcher
• toy boy
• MILF