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muskat

muskat is the obsolete form of musk cat.

Meaning of musk cat

Noun

musk cat (plural musk cats)

  1. (obsolete) An animal which secretes musk, such as a civet, or musk deer.
    • As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still, / As that which from chaf'd muskats pores doth trill […]1633, John Donne, The Comparison
  2. (South Africa) Common genet or Cape genet.
  3. (derogatory, obsolete) A scented effeminate dandy.
  4. (obsolete) A prostitute.

Forms of muskat

pluralmuskats

Questions about muskat

What is muskat the obsolete form of?
Muskat is the obsolete form of musk cat.

Words near muskat in the dictionary

  1. musk-rats
  2. muskadel
  3. muskadels
  4. muskadine
  5. muskadines
  6. muskat
  7. muskats
  8. Muskau Heath
  9. muskball
  10. muskballs
  11. Muskbro

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Adapted from Wiktionary: muskat (page history and authors); musk cat (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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