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

One night she’d have a nightmare about old Shotgun Cheatham sitting up in his coffin, and on the night after that she’d dream that Grandma’s big old tomcat was jumping at her.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck