coon cat

American  

noun

1. cacomistle.

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Etymology

Origin of coon cat

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

The worker told investigators that the Maine coon cat would often roll in those clothes, something the second cat never did.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2025

Whether your housemate is a Great Dane or a Maine coon cat, when it comes to design, Pelletier notes, “The only limit is your imagination.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 24, 2023

Marty, a black Maine coon cat, succumbed to “an unforseen illness,” Mount Washington Summit Operations Manager Rebecca Scholand said in a news release Monday.

From Washington Times • Nov. 9, 2020

“Flowers are in everything,” Jamieson tells me in her kitchen, standing beside her regal, three-foot-long Maine coon cat, Pablo.

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2019

There is in this country a variety known as the "coon cat," which is handsome, especially in the solid black.

From Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others by Winslow, Helen M.