From en.wiktionary.org:
[wild cat]
** English
[wikipedia] [bobcat] [wildcat cartridge] [wildcat (disambiguation)]
*** Alternative forms
- [en] , [en]
*** Etymology
From [en], [enm] (in the plural as [enm], [enm], [enm]), equivalent to [en].
Cognate with [gml], [de], [sv].
Its adjectival senses were originally American and derived from the "wildcat
banks" of Michigan, following its elevation to statehood in 1837. Two
[laws—]one easing the requirements for establishing a new bank and another
occasioned by the Panic of 1837 that removed the need for payment in [specie
—]led to the creation and collapse of around 50 banks within two years.[1][2]
The term is apocryphally derived from a wildcat supposedly featured on the
currency printed by one of these banks,[3] but more probably derived from the
remote locations "where the wildcats roamed" chosen by these banks to avoid
oversight and minimize redemption of notes.[4]
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A cat that live s in the wilderness , _specifically_ :
1. [en] [Felis silvestris] , a common small Old World wild cat somewhat larger than a house cat .
2. [en] A bobcat ( [Lynx rufus] ) or other similar New World species of lynx .
3. Any feral cat .
4. [en] [en] , any undomesticated felid , as tiger s or lion s.
5. * 2003 APRIL 24 , CNN
6. *: Upon checking it out, we found a total of 13 newborn WILDCATS : nine newborn tigers and two newborn leopards.
2. [en] A person who act s like a wildcat, [usually] a violent and easily - angered person or a sexually vigorous one .
3. * 2002 SEPTEMBER 26 , _The Young and the Restless_
4. *: Anyone who's man enough to have landed a WILDCAT like you had to be quite a guy.
5. [en] An offensive formation with an unbalanced line and a snap directly to the running back rather than the quarterback .
6. [en] A wheel that can be adjust ed so as to revolve either with or on the shaft of a capstan .
7. [en] [en] .
8. [en] [en] .
9. [en] [en] .
**** Synonyms
- [Eurasian wildcats] [en]
- [American wildcats] _See_ BOBCAT
- [wild house cats] _See_ FERAL CAT
**** Hypernyms
- [felines] _See_ CAT , LYNX , _and_ WILD CAT
**** Hyponyms
- [Eurasian wildcats] European wildcat ( [Felis silvestris silvestris] ), African wildcat ( _F. s. lybica_ ), Asiatic wildcat ( [Felis silvestris ornata] ), [Southern African wildcat] ( [Felis silvestris cafra] ), Chinese mountain cat ( [Felis silvestris bieti] )
- [Eurasian wildcats] [Abyssinian wildcat] , [Arabian wildcat] , [Balearic wildcat] , [bay wildcats] , [bush wildcats] , [Caucasian wildcat] , [Corsica wildcat] , [Cretan wildcat] , [East African wildcat] , [forest wildcats] , [Hausa wildcat] , [Iraqi wildcat] , [Kalahari wildcat] , [Mid-belt wildcat] , [Mongolian wildcat] , [Rhodesian wildcat] , Scottish wildcat , [steppe wildcats] , [Syrian wildcat] , [Tristram's wildcat] , [Turkestan wildcat] , [Ugandan wildcat]
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[_Felis silvestris_]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Apache:
- Arabic: [ar]
- Assamese: [as] , [as]
- Asturian: [ast] , [ast]
- Basque: [eu]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Northern Sami: [se] , [se]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Quechua: [qu] , [qu]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Sogdian: [sog] , [sog]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Welsh: [cy]
- Winnebago: [win]
[trans-bottom]
[_Felix rufus_]
[domesticated cat returned to the wild]
[undomesticated cat]
[person who acts like a wildcat]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
[trans-bottom]
[wildcat strike]
[checktrans-top]<!-- Please move any terms referring to Felis silvestris
above. Terms referring generically to undomesticated cats should be moved to
wild cat and those referring to Lynx rufus to bobcat.-->
- Albanian: [sq]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Breton: [br]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Faroese: [fo]
- French: [fr]
- Friulian: [fur]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- Hopi: [hop]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Italian: [it]
- Korean: [ko]
- Ladin: [lld]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Manx: [gv] , [gv]
- Maricopa: [mrc]
- Norwegian: [no] , [no]
- Romani: [rom] , [rom]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Romansch: [rm]
- Sardinian: [sc] , [sc] , [sc]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh] , [sh]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Volapük: [male or female] [vo] , [male] [vo] , [female] [vo]
- West Frisian: [fy]
- Wolof: [wo]
[trans-bottom]
*** Adjective
[-]
1. [en] Of or concerning business es operating outside standard or legitimate practice , especially:
2. * [en]
3. * [year=1976]
1. [en] Of or concerning irresponsible bank s or banking , [particularly] small , independent operation s.
2. [en] Of or concerning oil exploration in new area s, [particularly] small , independent operation s.
3. Of or concerning action s undertaken by worker s without approval or in defiance of the formal leadership of their trade union s.
4. [en] Of or concerning customize d or hand-made cartridge s.
5. Unauthorized by the proper authorities .
6. * 2003 JUNE 15 , CNN
7. *: Jewish settlers have also been active putting up five new WILDCAT outposts on hilltops in the West Bank to try to thwart their Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[relating to oil exploration] [trans-bottom]
[unauthorized by the proper authorities]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
[trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[++]
1. [en] To drill for oil in an area where no oil has been found before.
2. * [en]
**** Derived terms
- [en]
- [sco]
*** See also
- [Wildcat formation]
- [Eurasian wildcat] [en] ( [Felis lunensis] ), sand cat , jungle cat , black-footed cat
- [American wildcat] _See_ BOBCAT _and_ LYNX
*** References
References:
[1]. Wittmann, Matthew. " The Wildcat Bank of Brest (see https://web.archive.org/web/20160305134813/http://www.anspocketchange.org/the-wildcat-bank-of-brest/) " for _Pocket Change: The Blog of the American Numismatic Society_ . 14 May 2015.
[2]. Dunbar, Willis F. & al. _Michigan: A History of the Wolverine State (see https://books.google.com/books?id=HqGWEAnByeMC) _ , pp. 222 ff. (see https://books.google.com/books?id=HqGWEAnByeMC&pg=PA222)
[3]. _Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary_ . " Wild-cat (see https://web.archive.org/web/20150608002758/http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?resource=Webster%27s) ". G. & C. Merriam Co., 1913.
[4]. Dwyer, Gerald P. Jr. " Wildcat Banking, Banking Panics, and Free Banking in the United States (see https://web.archive.org/web/20150907080558/https://www.frbatlanta.org/-/media/Documents/filelegacydocs/ACFCE.pdf) " for _Economic Review_ . Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, 1996.
*** Anagrams
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[en] [en]