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Definition: Cougar |
CougarNoun1. Large American feline resembling a lion. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cougar" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1827. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Cougar |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: CougarSynonyms: catamount (n), mountain lion (n), painter (n), panther (n), puma (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Evil doer | Wild beast, tiger, hyena, butcher, hangman; blood-hound, hell-hound, sleuth-hound; catamount, cougar, jaguar, puma. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cougar |
| English words defined with "cougar": American lion ♦ slink. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cougar": WILDLIFE CONTROL AGENT. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Damnit Sullivan, I don't believe it, we just knocked out a cougar with a K-Mart blow gun! (The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys; writing credit: Jeff Stockwell) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Trap of Cougar Moutain (1972) Cougar Country (1970) Flight of the Cougar (1967) The Lonesome Cougar Charlie (1967) Cougar (1984) | |
Song Titles | Hurts So Good (performing artist: John Cougar) Jack & Diane (performing artist: John Cougar) Cherry Bomb (performing artist: John Cougar Mellencamp) Crumblin' Down (performing artist: John Cougar Mellencamp) Lonely Ol' Night (performing artist: John Cougar Mellencamp) | |
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 | Scenic Cougar BayCouer d'Alene Field OfficeUCSCUpper Columbia Salmon Clearwater District. Credit: Karen Wattenmaker. |  | Bobby Ingersol on "Kiger Cougar", an adopted kiger mustang, at Bell A Ranch arena in Burns. Credit: Mark Armstrong. |
 | Professional trainer, Bobby Ingersol, shows off Kiger Cougar, an adopted Kiger Mustang. Southeast Oregon. Credit: Mark Armstrong. |  | Launches a red-painted F9F "Cougar" jet fighter, during extremely well-lighted night operations, circa 1953-55. Other planes on her flight deck include F9F "Panther" and F3D "Skynight" fighters. Credit: NAVY. |
 | At sea, launching F9F "Cougar" fighters, 10 January 1956. Note steam rising from her port catapult. Photographed by B.W. Kortge. Credit: NAVY. |  | Approaches the Pedro Miguel Locks, while transiting the Panama Canal on 31 August 1954. The carrier was en route back to the Atlantic in the final stages of her September 1953 - September 1954 World cruise. Note Grumman F9F "Panther" fighter in the right foreground. Most of the other planes visible are swept-wing F9F "Cougar" fighters. Credit: NAVY. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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 | Cougar growl and yell. |
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Health | If you eat raw or undercooked meats, particularly pork, bear, wild feline (such as a cougar), fox, dog, wolf, horse, seal, or walrus, you are at risk for trichinosis. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Cougar" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 55.56% of the time. "Cougar" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 55.56% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 33.33% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 11.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Cougar, WA |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
cougar | 1,419 | mercury cougar accessory | 46 |
mercury cougar | 1,060 | eastern cougar | 42 |
cougar t shirt | 558 | 2002 mercury cougar | 42 |
cougar stuffed | 159 | custom cougar | 40 |
mellencamp john cougar | 157 | buy a mercury cougar | 39 |
john cougar | 120 | 1968 cougar | 35 |
cougar picture | 109 | 2003 mercury cougar | 34 |
mercury cougar part | 94 | cougar wa | 32 |
1999 mercury cougar | 92 | 1996 cougar | 32 |
ford cougar | 82 | 2001 mercury cougar | 32 |
2000 mercury cougar | 77 | cougar mercury picture | 31 |
cougar animal | 67 | cougar mountain | 31 |
cougar body kit | 67 | cougar clipart | 30 |
cougar car | 66 | cougar keystone | 29 |
cougar part | 57 | 99 mercury cougar | 28 |
mercury cougar body kit | 54 | 1970 mercury cougar | 28 |
1968 mercury cougar | 54 | cougar boat | 28 |
1967 mercury cougar | 52 | cougar rv | 27 |
1969 mercury cougar | 50 | mercury cougar for sale | 26 |
mercury cougar used | 50 | cougar john mellencamp mp3 | 26 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "cougar"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pumë (puma), kuguar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كوجر حيوان, أسد امريكي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blackfoot | omahkatayo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | пума (american panther, catamount, puma). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | puma (bomb, bombshell, puma). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | poema (mountain lion, puma). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | pumo (mountain lion, puma). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | puma. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | puma (mountain lion, puma), kuguar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ορεινόσ λέων. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | puma (American lion, mountain lion, painter, panther, puma). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Irish | púma (mountain lion, puma). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | coguaro, puma (puma). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | "마 (PUMA). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | koogar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ougarcay puma (puma). (various references) кугуар (panther, puma), пума (American mountain lion, mountain lion, panther, puma). (various references) kuguar (catamount). (various references) puma (panther, puma). (various references) tigri (jaguar, mountain lion, puma), reditigri (mountain lion, puma). (various references) puma (mountain lion, puma), kuguar (mountain lion). (various references) เสือ ูเขา. (various references) puma (mountain lion, puma). (various references) кугуар (puma), пума (puma), пантера (panther). (various references) koh (beak, bill, mountain lion, puma, tooth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cougar": cougars. (additional references) | |
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"Cougar" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bougard, Ceegar, chowgarh, cigua, cogar, Cogger, cooga, coougar, Corgarff, couard, cougare, couger, cougir, couglan, Coupar, courag, Crogary, cugar, Cugat, cuigear, Dougary, Fougar, Hougaard, Mofugger, Noufara, nougar, Nougzar, Roygar. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cougar" (pronounced kuw"ger) |
| 3 | -uw" g er | luger. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-o-r-u" | |
-1 letter: cargo, guaco. | |
-2 letters: arco, crag, gaur, guar, orca, ruga. | |
-3 letters: ago, arc, car, cog, cor, cur, gar, goa, gor, oar, oca, ora, orc, our, rag, roc, rug. | |
-4 letters: ag, ar, go, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-o-r-u" | |
+1 letter: cougars, courage. | |
+2 letters: choragus, clangour, courages, gracious, guacharo. | |
+3 letters: carousing, clangours, corrugate, encourage, guacharos, outcharge, outracing, roughcast, sugarcoat, surrogacy. | |
+4 letters: accoutring, background, campground, cataloguer, choraguses, clamouring, clangorous, clangoured, coastguard, corrugated, corrugates, courageous, discourage, encouraged, encourager, encourages, glycosuria, goatsucker, graciously, guacharoes, outcharged, outcharges, roughcasts, sugarcoats, supercargo, ungracious, urological. | |
+5 letters: accoutering, archegonium, autographic, backgrounds, campgrounds, carpogonium, cataloguers, chaulmoogra, clangouring, coastguards, coauthoring, cofeaturing, compurgator, corrugating, corrugation, coruscating, discouraged, discourager, discourages, encouragers, encouraging, glycosurias, goatsuckers, granulocyte, nonsurgical, outcapering, outcharging, outcharming, outcrawling, outmarching, outreaching, oversaucing, sarcophagus, subcategory, sugarcoated, supercargos, surrogacies, unanchoring. | |
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