Friday, August 27, 2004

"COUGAR" slang now inducted into the Canadian Oxford Dictionary

When my brother and my buddies back in Canada used to hang out, we came up with a term for older women on the prowl. Since young women were- ahem... pussy or kittens, it naturally followed that older women, a little more predatorial or on the prowl, would be cougars.
Yeah, they could have been panthers or tigers, but cougar seemed more fitting, what with the "C" alliteration to cat and, of course, that "cu... word."
Lo and behold, either the term spread like wildfire, or we were unknowingly involved in a hundredth- monkey syndrome of universal thought, 'cause the word Cougar has just been added to the Canadian edition of the Oxford dictionary.
Check out the link- there's a few other tasty and uniquely Canuck additions.

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