catty-mount

English

Etymology

From catamount.

Noun

catty-mount (plural catty-mounts)

1. (dialectal, Southern US) Alternative spelling of catamount
   • 1930, William Faulkner, “Darl”, in As I Lay Dying (Penguin Modern Classics), Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books in association with Chatto & Windus, published 1980, →ISBN, page 81:

     'He would have rid that horse, too,' pa says, 'if I hadn't a stopped him. A durn spotted critter wilder than a catty-mount. A deliberate flouting of her and me.'