painter
Dialect
- Meaning
- A mountain lion or panther.
- Type
- Dialect Word
- Used in
- Appalachia, North Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia
What does “painter” mean
Old Appalachian pronunciation/variant of 'panther', used for the now mostly-extirpated Eastern cougar. 'Painter scream's enough to freeze your blood.' Survives in older speakers and folk tales, where the painter is a near-mythic predator of the hollers.
Where it's used
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