Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to wildcat
Participle: wildcatted
Gerund: wildcatting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | wildcat |
| you | wildcat |
| he;she;it | wildcats |
| we | wildcat |
| you | wildcat |
| they | wildcat |
Perfect
| I | have wildcatted |
| you | have wildcatted |
| he;she;it | has wildcatted |
| we | have wildcatted |
| you | have wildcatted |
| they | have wildcatted |
Past
| I | wildcatted |
| you | wildcatted |
| he;she;it | wildcatted |
| we | wildcatted |
| you | wildcatted |
| they | wildcatted |
Pluperfect
| I | had wildcatted |
| you | had wildcatted |
| he;she;it | had wildcatted |
| we | had wildcatted |
| you | had wildcatted |
| they | had wildcatted |
Future
| I | will wildcat |
| you | will wildcat |
| he;she;it | will wildcat |
| we | will wildcat |
| you | will wildcat |
| they | will wildcat |
Future Perfect
| I | will have wildcatted |
| you | will have wildcatted |
| he;she;it | will have wildcatted |
| we | will have wildcatted |
| you | will have wildcatted |
| they | will have wildcatted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | wildcat |
| you | wildcat |
| he;she;it | wildcat |
| we | wildcat |
| you | wildcat |
| they | wildcat |
Perfect
| I | have wildcatted |
| you | have wildcatted |
| he;she;it | have wildcatted |
| we | have wildcatted |
| you | have wildcatted |
| they | have wildcatted |
Imperfect
| I | wildcatted |
| you | wildcatted |
| he;she;it | wildcatted |
| we | wildcatted |
| you | wildcatted |
| they | wildcatted |
Pluperfect
| I | had wildcatted |
| you | had wildcatted |
| he;she;it | had wildcatted |
| we | had wildcatted |
| you | had wildcatted |
| they | had wildcatted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would wildcat |
| you | would wildcat |
| he;she;it | would wildcat |
| we | would wildcat |
| you | would wildcat |
| they | would wildcat |
Perfect
| I | would have wildcatted |
| you | would have wildcatted |
| he;she;it | would have wildcatted |
| we | would have wildcatted |
| you | would have wildcatted |
| they | would have wildcatted |
Imperative
| you | wildcat |
| we | Let's wildcat |
| you | wildcat |
Verbs conjugated like 'wildcat'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'wildcat'
wildcraft,
bilocate,
vidcast,
weedeat,
wild,
wilden,
wilder,
wilt,
adlect,
allect,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English wyld cat, wylde cat (in the plural as wild cattes, wylde catis, wyle cattes), equivalent to wild + cat. Cognate with Middle Low German wiltkatte, German Wildkatze, Swedish vildkatt.
2. Its adjectival senses were originally American and derived from the "wildcat banks" of Michigan, following its elevation to statehood in 1837. Two laws—one easing the requirements for establishing a new bank and another occasioned by the Panic of 1837 that removed the need for payment in specie—led to the creation and collapse of around 50 banks within two years. The term is apocryphally derived from a wildcat supposedly featured on the currency printed by one of these banks, but more probably derived from the remote locations "where the wildcats roamed" chosen by these banks to avoid oversight and minimize redemption of notes.
Sample Sentences
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You'd have to be very rich or very desperate to go wildcatting that far east.
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His pitch was that fracking had transformed the production of gas from a hit-or-miss proposition to one that operated with an on and off switch. It was manufacturing, not wildcatting. [2018 August 30, Bethany McLean, “How America's ‘most reckless’ billionaire created the fracking boom”, in The Guardian:]