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cougarish

cougarish adjective: resembling or characteristic of a cougar, or sexually predatory woman.

Adjective

cougarish (comparative more cougarish, superlative most cougarish)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a cougar, or sexually predatory woman.
    • Cougarish Carol Vorderman, a Mensa-level Vanna White who drew letters and numbers for contestants for more than a quarter century, left the show in 2008 but remains a pop-culture fixture[…]2009, Jason Cochran, Pauline Frommer's London, page 300
    • Janet gave him a cougarish once-over that made him feel like a piece of raw meat she was looking to sink her teeth into.2011, Janelle Denison, Night After Night

Forms of cougarish

comparativemore cougarish
superlativemost cougarish

Origin of cougarish

From cougar + -ish.

Questions about cougarish

What does cougarish mean?
Cougarish means resembling or characteristic of a cougar, or sexually predatory woman.
What part of speech is cougarish?
Cougarish is an adjective.

Words near cougarish in the dictionary

  1. Coug it
  2. Cougal
  3. cougar
  4. cougarhood
  5. cougaring
  6. cougarish
  7. cougarlike
  8. cougarness
  9. cougars
  10. cougarship
  11. Couged it

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