The story
- Middle English · inherited fromwyld cat
- English todaywild cat
From Middle English wyld cat, wylde cat (in the plural as wild cattes, wylde catis, wyle cattes), equivalent to wild + cat.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
wild cat
Today it means: An undomesticated felid, as tigers or lions. Full definition →
Middle English wyld cat