caut

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UK/kɔːt/

verb

To emit the characteristic call of a panther.

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Meanings

verbcaut (third-person singular simple present cauteth, present participle cauting, simple past and past participle cauted)

present singular third person cauteth · participle present cauting · participle past cauted · past cauted

  1. obsoleteTo emit the characteristic call of a panther.

    A Panther Cauteth, which word is taken from the sound of his voice.

    1688, Randle Holme, The Academy of Armory, or A Storehouse of Armory and Blazon, volume 2, page 134, column 2
  2. broadlyfigurativelyobsoleteTo make a noise similar to the call of a panther.
    1 more example

    If I have done Service to Men in what I have ſaid, I ſhall hope I have done Service to God; and that will be better than a ſilly Speech made for me, full of whining and cauting, which I utterly deſpiſe, and have never been uſed to; yet ſuch a one I expect to have my Ears tormented with, as I am paſſing along the Streets[.]

    1722 May 2nd, Ebenezer Elliston, “The Laſt Speech and Dying Words of Ebenezer Elliſton” in Miſcellanies (ed. Jonathan Swift, pub. 1751, volume nine, fifth edition), pages 19–20

Origin

Onomatopoeia.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with caut

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Anagrams

Cuta
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APA

caut. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/caut

MLA

“caut.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/caut. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “caut,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/caut.

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