wild cat
Meaning
- An undomesticated felid, as tigers or lions.
- A feral cat.
- Alternative spelling of wildcat, (UK) the Old World wildcats (Felis silvestris) or (US) the bobcat (Lynx rufus) and other New World lynxes.
- Alternative spelling of wildcat in its other extended senses.
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English wyld cat, wylde cat (in the plural as wild cattes, wylde catis, wyle cattes), equivalent to wild + cat.
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