# cougar

Pronunciation: US say "KOO-gur" /ˈkuɡɚ/; UK/AUS say "KOO-guh" /ˈkuːɡə/

## Noun

1. A large, long-tailed wild cat of the species Puma concolor, native to North and South America.
   - Simple: A large wild cat with a long tail that lives in North and South America.
   - _Wildlife officials fitted the cougar with a GPS collar to track its movements through the foothills._
   - _Ranchers in the valley have lost several calves to cougars this spring._
2. An older woman who actively seeks casual, often sexual, relationships with younger men, regarded as preying on them. *(slang, Canada, US)*
   - Simple: An older woman who goes after younger men for casual dates or sex.
   - _Everyone at the reunion whispered that she'd turned into a cougar after the divorce._
   - _The lounge has a reputation as a hangout for cougars and the twenty-something men they are hunting._

## Origin

Brazilian Portuguese suçuarana may come from Old Tupi sûasuarana ("deerlike animal"), built on suasú ("deer"), or perhaps from Guaraní. A related Brazilian name, recorded as cuguacu ara, was shortened in French to couguar, the source of the English word.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/cougar (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).