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cougarship

cougarship noun: a male cougar viewed as the ruler of its habitat.

Noun

cougarship (plural cougarships)

  1. (dated, humorous, rare) A male cougar viewed as the ruler of its habitat.
    • I expected I had been dressing meat for his cougarship, but as I had no horse to back the deer into camp, was obliged to "trust to luck," and started for camp by a short cut, and found I was continually "cut off" by beaver dams, and after a circuit of three miles reached camp and found my...1874 April 25, J. H. Batty, “The Felis Concolor, Or Panther”, in The Sportsman, volume 4, number 4, page 51
    • The footprints were only a few inches apart, and his cougarship had carried himself so low that his body had dragged in the snow and left a deep furrow behind.1902, William Davenport Hulbert, Forest Neighbors: Life Stories of Wild Animals, pages 114-115

Forms of cougarship

pluralcougarships

Origin of cougarship

From cougar + -ship, likely after the pattern of lordship.

Questions about cougarship

What does cougarship mean?
Cougarship means a male cougar viewed as the ruler of its habitat.
What part of speech is cougarship?
Cougarship is a noun.
What is the plural of cougarship?
The plural of cougarship is cougarships.

Words near cougarship in the dictionary

  1. cougaring
  2. cougarish
  3. cougarlike
  4. cougarness
  5. cougars
  6. cougarship
  7. Couged it
  8. cough
  9. cough and a spit
  10. cough button
  11. cough buttons

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