tomcat

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The Cats Protection charity said the family in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, was also being watched over by a tomcat, which was "very unusual".

From BBC • May 18, 2021

They find themselves competing for McBurney’s favor as he sets about manipulating their vanities and insecurities, smiling like a tomcat who has stumbled into a cage full of canaries.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2017

Felis up: A particularly aggressive species of orange tomcat.

From Washington Post • Jun. 8, 2017

A childhood friend compared him to “a tomcat, constantly tense and grumpy”; later in life he acquired the nickname Gniewosz, which blended his name with the Polish word for “anger.”

From The New Yorker • May 22, 2017

A big old snaggletoothed tomcat lived in the cobhouse, and as quick as you’d come out of the privy, he’d jump at you.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck