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catty-mount
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English
Etymology
From catamount.
Noun
catty-mount (plural catty-mounts)
- (dialectal, Southern US) Alternative spelling of catamount.
- 1930, William Faulkner, “Darl”, in As I Lay Dying (Penguin Modern Classics), Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books in association with Chatto & Windus, published 1980, →ISBN, page 81:
- '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.'
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