cougar

English

Etymology

French cougar, from Brazilian Portuguese suçuarana, perhaps from Tupian (suasuarana (“deerlike animal”), from suasú (“deer”); compare sɨwasuarána (“cervine”)) or perhaps form Guaraní (guaçuara).

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 men, 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

Hypernyms

• (middle-aged person who seeks younger partners): cradle robber, cradle snatcher

Hyponyms

• (Puma concolor): Florida panther (a subspecies of mountain lion)

Coordinate terms

• (middle-aged man who seeks younger partners): manther

Translations

Puma concolor

• Armenian: կատվառյուծ (hy) (katvaṙyuç) 
• Bulgarian: пума (bg) (púma) 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) (pyūma)

• Javanese: puma (jv)
• Malay:

  Rumi: kugar (ms), puma (ms)

  Jawi: کوݢر (ms), ڤوما (ms)

• 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 
• Scottish Gaelic: cugar = wildcat
• 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), puuma (fi)
• French: cougar (fr)

• Portuguese: loba (pt) f

External links

• Cougar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Cougar (disambiguation)

See also

• MILF
• sugar mama
• toy boy