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Wild cat

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An undomesticated felid, as tigers or lions.
  2. 2
    A feral cat.
  3. 3
    Alternative form of wildcat, (UK) the Old World wildcats (Felis silvestris) or (US) the bobcat (Lynx rufus) and other New World lynxes. alt-of, alternative, uncommon
  4. 4
    Alternative form of wildcat in its other extended senses. alt-of, alternative, uncommon

Etymology

From Middle English wyld cat, wylde cat (in the plural as wild cattes, wylde catis, wyle cattes), equivalent to wild + cat.

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