catty-mount
English edit
Etymology edit
From catamount.
Noun edit
catty-mount (plural catty-mounts)
- (dialectal, Southern US) catamount
- 1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, published 1985, page 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."