Used as a term of address by a man to his lover in The Executive, by Michael Fisher. Before the vocative is used we hear that ‘she was like a suspicious and rather ferocious animal, I thought. “You look like a lynx,” I told...

A lynx is any of four medium-sized wild cats. All are members of the genus Lynx, but there is considerable confusion about the best way to classify felids at present, and some authorities classify them as part of the genus Felis. if...