caut
UK/kɔːt/
caut verb: to emit the characteristic call of a panther.
Verb
caut (third-person singular simple present cauteth, present participle cauting, simple past and past participle cauted)
- To 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
- To make a noise similar to the call of a panther.
- 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...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
Forms of caut
| third-person singular present | cauteth |
|---|---|
| present participle | cauting |
| past participle | cauted |
| past | cauted |
Origin of caut
Onomatopoeia.
Words that rhyme with caut
Questions about caut
- What does caut mean?
- Caut means to emit the characteristic call of a panther.
- What part of speech is caut?
- Caut is a verb.
- How do you pronounce caut?
- Caut is pronounced /kɔːt/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of caut?
- The past tense of caut is cauted.
Words near caut in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: caut (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.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “caut.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/caut. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.