An older woman who actively seeks the casual, often sexual, companionship of younger men, by implication a female “sexual predator”.
Origin
From French couguar, from Portuguese cuguardo, a deformation of (earlier çuçuarana), perhaps from Tupi (suasuarana, from suasú; compare sɨwasuarána) or perhaps from Guaraní (guaçuara).
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