catty-mount

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English

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Etymology

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From catamount.

Noun

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catty-mount (plural catty-mounts)

  1. (dialectal, Southern US) catamount
    • 1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, published 1985, page 67:
      "He would have rid that horse, too," pa says, "if I hadn't a stopped him. A durn spotted critter wilder than a catty-mount. A deliberate flouting of her and me."
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