catty-mount

A form of catamount — A wild animal of the family Felidae, especially the cougar, mountain lion or puma (Puma concolor).

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Meanings

nouncatty-mount (plural catty-mounts)

plural catty-mounts

  1. Southern USalternativedialectalAlternative spelling of catamount.

    '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.'

    1930, William Faulkner, “Darl”, in As I Lay Dying (Penguin Modern Classics), Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books in association with Chatto & Windus, published 1980, →ISBN, page 81

Origin

From catamount.

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APA

catty-mount. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/catty-mount

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“catty-mount.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/catty-mount. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “catty-mount,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/catty-mount.

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