different between cub vs cougar

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?b/
• Rhymes: -?b

Etymology 1

Origin unknown. Perhaps compare Old Norse or Icelandic kobbi (“seal”), Old Irish cuib (“whelp”).

Noun

cub (plural cubs)

1. A young fox.
2. (by extension) The young of certain other animals, including the bear, wolf, lion and tiger.
3. (humorous or derogatory) A child, especially an awkward, rude, ill-mannered boy.
4. (slang) A young man who seeks relationships with older women, or "cougars".
5. (obsolete) A stall for cattle.
6. (obsolete) A cupboard.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Laud to this entry?)

7. Synonym of cub reporter
   • 1978, The Journalism Quarterly (volume 55, page 652)

     Swain has interviewed 67 reporters on 16 metropolitan dailies in 10 cities — from cubs to veterans — who talk candidly […]

   • 2018, Randall S. Sumpter, Before Journalism Schools

     […] from competing publications and the editors of publications that might buy freelance material from cubs.

Derived terms

• cub reporter

Translations

Verb

cub (third-person singular simple present cubs, present participle cubbing, simple past and past participle cubbed)

1. To give birth to cubs
2. To hunt fox cubs
3. (obsolete) To shut up or confine.

Etymology 2

Noun

cub (plural cubs)

1. Acronym of cashed up bogan.

References

Anagrams

• BUC, UBC

Albanian

Etymology

From South Slavic; compare Serbo-Croatian ??ba ‘tuft, crest’, Polish czub ‘crest; tip’. Mann posits that the noun might be from Gothic ???????????????????? (þiufs), although this is unlikely.

Adjective

cub m (feminine cube)

1. bobtailed, having a docked tail
2. awnless (of grain)

Derived terms

Noun

cub m (indefinite plural cuba, definite singular cubi, definite plural cubat)

1. mountain bandit, robber, brigand, highwayman
2. (figuratively) crazy hero, crazy fool

Derived terms

References

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin cubus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?kup/

Noun

cub m (plural cubs)

1. cube (regular polyhedron having six square faces)
2. (mathematics) cube (the third power of a number)

Related terms

• cúbic

Further reading

• “cub” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Romanian

Etymology

From French cube, Latin cubus.

Noun

cub n (plural cuburi)

1. cube

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Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

cub

1. gull

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Alternative forms

• couguar

Etymology

From French couguar, from Portuguese cuguardo, a deformation of Brazilian Portuguese suçuarana (earlier çuçuarana), perhaps from Tupian (suasuarana (“deerlike animal”), from suasú (“deer”); compare s?wasuarána (“cervine”)) or perhaps from Guaraní (guaçuara).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ku???/, [?k?u???], /?ku????/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ku??/, [?k?u??]

Noun

cougar (plural cougars)

1. A mountain lion; Puma concolor.

   Synonyms: catamount, catamountain, mountain lion, painter, panther, puma, red tiger

   Hyponym: Florida panther
2. (Canada, US, slang) An older woman who actively seeks the casual, often sexual, companionship of younger men, by implication a female “sexual predator”.

   Hypernyms: cradle robber, cradle snatcher, manther

   Coordinate terms: cub, MILF, sugar mama, toy boy

   • 2011, Donna McDonald, Dating A Cougar, (?ISBN):

     “Younger can be good. How much younger?” Regina asked, inspecting the appetizer plates for any lingering bites. “I don't know,” Alexa said frowning. “Why does that matter?” “Less than eight years makes you a Puma. Over eight years makes you a Cougar,” Regina said wisely, grinning as Lauren nodded excitedly in agreement.

Derived terms

• cougarhood
• cougaring
• cougarish
• cougarlike

Translations

Further reading

• Cougar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku.?a?/

Noun

cougar f (plural cougars)

1. (informal) cougar (an older woman who actively seeks the casual, often sexual, companionship of younger men)

See also

• mangeuse d'hommes