Singular

Plural

the cougar

the cougars

 
[1] a resting cougar

Worttrennung:

cou·gar, Plural: cou·gars

Aussprache:

IPA: []
Hörbeispiele:   cougar (australisch) (Info)

Bedeutungen:

[1] der Puma, Berglöwe, Silberlöwe
[2] Slang: Cougar, ältere Frau, die Liebesbeziehungen mit viel jüngeren Männern hat

Oberbegriffe:

[1] Raubkatze
[2] Frau

Synonyme:

[1] mountain lion, mountain cat, catamount, panther, puma

Beispiele:

[1] "The cougar generally subsists on birds and small quadrupeds, such as young deer, raccoons, skunks, and the like: in South America the monkeys and peccaries frequently become its prey." [1]
[2] "The media perceptions of a cougar: an oversexed, desperate older woman on the prowl for nave younger meat could not be more misleading."[2]

Übersetzungen

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[1] Englischer Wikipedia-Artikel „cougar
[2] Wikipedia-Artikel „Cougar (Slang)
[1] Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary „cougar
[1] Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus „cougar
[1] Dictionary.com Englisch-Englisches Wörterbuch, Thesaurus und Enzyklopädie „cougar
[1] PONS Englisch-Deutsch, Stichwort: „cougar
[1] dict.cc Englisch-Deutsch, Stichwort: „cougar
[1] LEO Englisch-Deutsch, Stichwort: „cougar

Quellen:

  1. Samuel Griswold Goodrich; Johnson's natural history: comprehensive, scientific, and popular, illustrating and describing the animal kingdom, with its wonders and curiosities, showing the habits, structure, and classification of animals, with their relation to agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and the arts, Band 1; A.J. Johnson, 1868 Google Books
  2. Victoria Phillips: Confessions of a Scottsdale Cougar, Xlibris, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4415-6583-9, S. 29