cougar

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈkuːɡə/    美 /ˈkuɡɚ/|[ˈkʰuɡɚ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A wild feline, of species Puma concolor, native to the Americas.
    — They are found in Brasil, Paraguay, and in the country of the Amazons; and there is reason to believe that the animal, described by some travellers, under the name of the Ocorome, in Peru, is the same as the cougar, as well as that in the country of the Iroquois, which has been considered as a tiger, thought it is neither striped like that animal, nor spotted like the panther.
  2. An older woman who actively seeks the casual, often sexual, companionship of younger men, by implication a female “sexual predator”. Canada,US,derogatory,slang
    — A cougar approached Warren at the Palomino Club and asked for a dance.

词形变化

cougars plural couguar alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
cougarhood cougaring cougarish cougarlike cougarness

词源

From French couguar, from Portuguese cuguardo, a deformation of Brazilian Portuguese suçuarana (earlier çuçuarana), from Old Tupi sûasuarana.
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