cougar

See also: Cougar

English

Alternative forms

• couguar

Etymology

From French couguar, from Brazilian (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Portuguese suçuarana, perhaps from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  (suasuarana (“deerlike animal”), from suasú (“deer”); compare sɨwasuarána (“cervine”)) or perhaps from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Guaraní (guaçuara).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuːɡə/, [ˈkʰuːɡə], /ˈkuːɡɑː/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkuɡɚ/, [ˈkʰuɡɚ]

• Audio (AU):

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Noun

cougar (plural cougars)

1. A mountain lion; Puma concolor.

   Synonyms: catamount, catamountain, mountain lion, painter, panther, puma, red tiger

   Hyponym: Florida panther

   • 1831, Francis Smith Eastman, A history of the state of New York:

     The Cougar has entirely disappeared, or is very rarely met with. This animal was about the size of the wolf, of a gray color, strong, active, fierce and untameable.

   • 1854, “The cougar, and an adventure with one”, in The Anglo-American Magazine, volume 4, page 84:

     The only indigenous long tailed cat in America north of the parallel of 30 degrees is the cougar. The wild cats, so called, are lynxes with short tails; and of these there are three distinct species.

2. (Canada, US, slang) An older woman who actively seeks the casual, often sexual, companionship of younger men, by implication a female “sexual predator”.

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

   Hypernyms: cradle robber, cradle snatcher, manther

Derived terms

• cougarhood
• cougaring
• cougarish
• cougarlike

Translations

Puma concolor

• Alabama: kowi
• Apache:

  Western Apache: ndołkah

• Arabic: أسد أمريكي
• Arapaho: 3io'kuutoo
• Arikara: waxtás
• Armenian: կատվառյուծ (hy) (katvaṙyuc)
• Assiniboine: įkmutąga
• Atakapa: niāl
• Azerbaijani: dağ aslanı
• Biloxi: taⁿta
• Bulgarian: пу́ма (bg) f (púma)
• Cayuga: dagu:sgo:wah
• Cherokee: ᏢᏓᏥ (tlvdatsi)
• Cheyenne: nanóse'hame
• Chickasaw: kowishto'
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 美洲狮 (zh) (měizhōushī)

• Comanche: toyaruku, pia wa'óo
• Creek: kaccv
• Crow: iishbíia
• Czech: puma (cs) f
• Dakota: inmutanka
• Danish: puma c
• Dutch: bergleeuw m, poema (nl) m
• Esperanto: pumo
• Estonian: puuma (et)
• Faroese: puma f
• Finnish: puuma (fi), vuorileijona
• French: cougar (fr) m, lion des montagnes (fr) m, puma (fr) m
• Georgian: პუმა (ṗuma), კუგუარი (ḳuguari), მთის ლომი (mtis lomi)
• German: Puma (de) m, Berglöwe m, Silberlöwe (de) m
• Greek: ορεινός λέων m (oreinós léon), πούμα (el) n (poúma)
• Guaraní: jaguapytã
• Hopi: toho
• Hungarian: puma (hu)
• Ido: pumao (io)
• Indonesian: puma (id), singa gunung
• Ineseño: tukʼeʼm
• Interlingua: puma
• Irish: púma m
• Italian: puma (it) m
• Japanese: ピューマ (ja) (pyūma)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Javanese: puma
• Khmer: តោភ្នំ (tao pnum), ពូម៉ា (puumaa)
• Korean: 퓨마 (pyuma)
• Lakota: igmuwatogla
• Malay:

  Jawi: کوݢر, ڤوما

  Rumi: kugar, puma

• Maori: kouka
• Nahuatl: miztli (nah)
• Narragansett: pussoúgh
• Natchez: iciwata∙
• Navajo: náshdóítsoh
• Northern Paiute: tooonugwetsedu
• Occitan: puma (oc) f
• Ojibwe: mishibizhii
• Osage:

  Osage: Y^LO^KA

  Roman: iⁿloⁿka

• Persian: شیر کوهی (šire kuhi), پوما (pumâ)
• Polish: kuguar (pl) m, puma (pl) f
• Portuguese: onça-parda f, puma (pt) m, suçuarana m, leão-baio m, leão-da-montanha m
• Quechua: puma (qu)
• Romanian: pumă (ro) f
• Russian: кугуа́р (ru) m (kuguár), пу́ма (ru) f (púma), го́рный лев m (górnyj lev)
• Scottish Gaelic: cugar m
• Seneca: hë:es
• Seri: xazoj
• Shawnee: mšipeši
• Shoshone: doyadukubichi'
• Slovak: puma (sk) f
• Slovene: puma (sl) f
• Spanish: puma (es) m, león americano m, león bayo m, mitzli, onza bermeja f
• Swahili: puma class 9/10
• Swedish: puma (sv) c, bergslejon (sv) n
• Thai: เสือภูเขา (sĕua poo kăo)
• Tonkawa: 'okma'ek
• Turkish: dağ aslanı (tr), puma (tr)
• Wapishana: kosharadin
• Welsh: pwma m, cwgar m, llew mynydd m
• Yaqui: ousei

slang: older woman who seeks younger men

• Finnish: kotka (fi), puuma (fi)
• French: cougar (fr)
• Japanese: 熟女 (ja) (jukujo)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Navajo: ashiikéyázhí há naalzheehí
• Portuguese: loba (pt) f
• Spanish: loba (es) f

See also

• cub
• MILF
• sugar mama
• toy boy

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku.ɡaʁ/

• Audio:

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Noun

cougar f (plural cougars)

1. (informal) cougar (an older woman who actively seeks the casual, often sexual, companionship of younger men)

See also

• mangeuse d'hommes