Synonyms for wildcat

Grammar : Noun

Spell : wahyld-kat

Phonetic Transcription : ˈwaɪldˌkæt

Définition of wildcat

Origin : early 15c., from wild (adj.) + cat (n.). Meaning "savage woman" is recorded from 1570s; sense of "one who forms rash projects" is attested from 1812. The adjective in the financial speculative sense is first recorded 1838, American English.

noun large cat

Example sentences :

Meddling with wildcat stocks––asinine any way you figure it!
Extract from : « The Gorgeous Girl » by Nalbro Bartley

Soon all were standing close to the flat rock where the wildcat had been hit.
Extract from : « Dave Porter At Bear Camp » by Edward Stratemeyer

Cochise shot past, whirled, and closed in with the fury of a wildcat.
Extract from : « Bloom of Cactus » by Robert Ames Bennet

But whether they hit the wildcat or not, they could not tell.
Extract from : « The Rover Boys on a Hunt » by Arthur M. Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer)

I could whip a wildcat and give her the first two scratches.
Extract from : « Masters of Space » by Edward Elmer Smith

There isn't a wildcat within a thousand miles of this island.
Extract from : « Boy Scouts in the Philippines » by G. Harvey Ralphson

However, I'm no bargain and she's one-third wildcat, one-third vixen, and one-third cobra.
Extract from : « The Galaxy Primes » by Edward Elmer Smith

Raising the stone, he took quick aim and threw it at the wildcat.
Extract from : « Dave Porter in the Gold Fields » by Edward Stratemeyer

The neighbor with whom we are stopping says, that, the night before we came, a wildcat glared in at her as she sat at her window.
Extract from : « Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California » by Caroline C. Leighton

"I don't mean to be tied up like a wildcat," said the captain doggedly.
Extract from : « A Lieutenant at Eighteen » by Oliver Optic

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