catty-mount
English
Etymology
From catamount.
Noun
catty-mount (plural catty-mounts)
- (dialectal, Southern U.S.) catamount
- 1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, 1985, p.67:
- "He would have rid that horse, too," pa says, "if I hadn't a stopped him. A durn spotted critter wilder than a catty-mount. A deliberate flouting of her and me."
- 1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, 1985, p.67: