catamountain

American

[kat-uh-maun-tn] / ˌkæt əˈmaʊn tn /

Or cat-o'-mountain

noun

a wild animal of the cat family, as the European wildcat, the leopard, or panther.

1400–50; variant of cat o' mountain, late Middle English cat of the mountaine

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catamountain

The owl is abroad, the bat, and the toad, And so is the catamountain.

From Peggy by Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze) Barry

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