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

He’s finely embodied by Will Chase, as dashing tomcat Fred Graham, who has disappointed O’Hara’s pouting Lilli Vanessi one time too many.

From Washington Post • Mar. 14, 2019

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

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

I was hopping all over the place and making more racket than a tomcat with his tail caught in a mouse trap.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls