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Why are smaller cats' young called kittens and large cats' young called cubs?

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Posted - August 23, 2018
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  • 6023
    I think it's "domestic" vs wild.

    Lynx young are cubs.

    And what small "wild" cats I could find, with young called kittens, appear to be thought as having once been domesticated.

      August 23, 2018 1:41 PM MDT
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  • 6477
    Just to be awkward? 
      August 23, 2018 2:42 PM MDT
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  • 1502
    I’m more worried why we drive on parkways and park on driveways.
      August 23, 2018 2:46 PM MDT
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  • 10635
    Because cubs is more regal sounding.   Unless you want to say "here kitty kitty" to a panther.
      August 23, 2018 4:05 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    There are few things that interest me less.

    Few.

      August 23, 2018 6:39 PM MDT
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  • 10052
    I don't know. Good question! 


      August 23, 2018 6:40 PM MDT
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  • 13071
    However you look at it, they are all a bunch of pussies. ;)
      August 23, 2018 7:53 PM MDT
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  • 53504

      Perv!

      August 23, 2018 9:11 PM MDT
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  • 53504

      (((((Psssst, Carbie, meet me at the zoo, ok?  I'll wait for you near the lions and tigers. Don't tell anyone about it because I have a reputation to uphold, and I can't be seen associating with pervs.  Shhhhhhh.))))
    ~
      August 24, 2018 8:49 AM MDT
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  • 13071
    I waited all night for you at the zoo, where were you? You didnt give me the apartment number. ;+
      August 24, 2018 8:59 AM MDT
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  • 53504

      What are you talking about, Carbie?  I met you last night at about at eleven o'clock in the darkened corridor, we did it all night long like two sweaty, panting, hotblooded beasts in every position known to mankind, and then fell asleep in each other's arms.  When I awoke this morning, you were gone, and there was a pile of $50 bills on my pillow . . . wait a second, that wasn't you???  Er, um, never mind.


    ~
      August 24, 2018 11:35 PM MDT
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  • 5354
    Kitty cats and Tiger cubs. That is just the way it is.
      August 23, 2018 8:55 PM MDT
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  • "So that dictionaries can be bigger."

      August 23, 2018 10:22 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    To make it possible for you to ask this question! LOL.
      August 24, 2018 9:06 AM MDT
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  • 44603
    The question has been burning in my mind for several decades.
      August 24, 2018 4:55 PM MDT
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  • 22891
    cause thats what people decided to call thenn
      September 9, 2018 2:52 PM MDT
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