wildcat

/ˈwʌɪl(d)kat/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈwʌɪl(d)kat/

wildcat

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Short i vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

wil - dcat -> wildcat

Myanmar meaning

သွေးဆူသူ ၊ ဒေါသကြီးသူ။ စမ်းသပ်ရှာဖွေရသည့် ရေနံတွင်း။ ရုတ်တရက်ဖြစ်ပြီး တရားမဝင်သော။ စည်းမဲ့ကမ်းမဲ့ဖြစ်သော။ ငွေကျေးအရ မခိုင်မာသော။

Full entry

wildcat /'waÇldkæt/ adj

(သမဂ္ဂ၏ ထောက်ခံမှုမပါဘဲ) အလုပ်သမား များ လတ်တလောထမှောက်သော (သပိတ်)။

More examples

‘Over the years, Owen Newman and I had filmed cheetahs, lions, leopards, African wildcats and servals (for the first ever film of them) but never caracals.’
‘A big wildcat can kill roe deer fawns, and sometimes even does.’
‘Since Dolly's creation in 1996 a variety of other animals have been duplicated, including a caracal cat and an African wildcat.’
‘Dresser's team is fine-tuning the cloning of small cats like the African wildcat, as well as the largest: tigers.’
‘Domestic cats are thought to have descended from the African subspecies of the wildcat.’
‘A highly adaptable wildcat of North America, the Bobcat has managed to survive in healthy numbers in a variety of habitats, consuming a diverse spectrum of prey, in both wild and inhabited regions.’
‘Though more tolerant of people than many other wildcats, bobcats tend to avoid large cultivated areas.’
‘I soon found out she was not a kid. She was a regular little wildcat.’
‘I think she played the boss' daughter and Kevin liked her but she was a real wildcat.’
‘Peak exploration was in 1985 when 184 wildcats were drilled.’
‘The effect of the industrial action was compounded by a wildcat strike held by railway train guards the same morning.’
‘This has seen members strike for two days in both February and April, and take part in a number of unofficial wildcat strikes.’
‘And when shop floor workers became dissatisfied, they staged increasing numbers of ‘unofficial’ or wildcat strikes.’
‘The 12-month dispute saw extensive industrial action, including wildcat strikes by teachers and walkouts by students.’
‘And at the time of writing we are seeing the first unofficial wildcat strikes in the civil service for 16 years!’
‘Those of you who might consider investing in a wildcat venture should also remember that the quality of geologic professional advice varies.’
‘Naturally no banker likes to see money drawn out of his institution and put into a wildcat investment where neither he nor anybody else thereabout will ever see it again.’
‘He was responsible for passage of the Wilderness Act, which is all that stands between deforestation and wildcatting across millions of acres of pristine federal land.’
‘Although Krajick's book about a pair of wildcatting prospectors is set mostly in Canada's Northwest Territories during the 1990s, the hostility and paranoia on display are the same as at the Namibian mine.’
‘He had invested in a wildcatting deal and lost money, but it was ‘no fault of George, ’ he said, adding that ‘the good Lord just didn't put any oil there.’’

Synonyms

black-market, bobcat, by stealth, caracal, chance, closed down, covertly, criminal, draw lots, extralegal, feline, furtively, go out on a limb, go out on limb, have a fling at, illegal, in camera, in holes and corners, indictable, large cat, lynx, make book, margin up, no-no, not allowed, not approved, not legal, off limits, on the QT, on the quiet, on the sly, out of line, outlawed, outside the law, over the line, pirated, play the market, play with fire, playing with fire, pour money into, prohibited, put eggs in one basket, put it on the line, put on the line, roll the dice, run the risk, skate on thin ice, spec, spec'd, specked, specs, speculate, stealthily, stick neck out, stick one's neck out, sticking one's neck out, take a chance, take a flier, take a fling, take shot in the dark, tempt fortune, toss up, unapproved, unauthorized, under cover, under the table, unlicensed, unrighteous, unsanctioned, unwarrantable