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catty-mount

catty-mount is the alternative spelling of catamount.

Meaning of catamount

Noun

catamount (plural catamounts)

  1. (US) A wild animal of the family Felidae, especially the cougar, mountain lion or puma (Puma concolor).
    • Uncle Charley's voice was very soft and there was a weary note in it. "Great snarlin' catamounts, but I'm tired."1920, Peter B[ernhard] Kyne, chapter VIII, in The Understanding Heart, Toronto, Ont.: The Copp Clark Co., →OCLC, pages 144–145
  2. (obsolete) Synonym of catamountain (“a leopard, a panther (Panthera pardus)”).
    Synonyms:
    catamountain

Forms of catty-mount

pluralcatty-mounts

Origin of catty-mount

From catamount.

Questions about catty-mount

What is catty-mount the alternative spelling of?
Catty-mount is the alternative spelling of catamount.

Words near catty-mount in the dictionary

  1. Cattrall
  2. Cattubo
  3. catty
  4. catty-corner
  5. catty-cornered
  6. catty-mount
  7. catty-mounts
  8. catty-wonker
  9. cattycorner
  10. cattys
  11. cattywampus

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Adapted from Wiktionary: catty-mount (page history and authors); catamount (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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