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Wolf

//wʊlf// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
The constellation Lupus.
2
A surname transferred from the given name.
3
A male given name.

Noun

1
Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily. countable
"He would listen quietly at meetings of the Politburo, or to distinguished visitors, puffing at his Dunhill pipe, doodling aimlessly - his secretaries Poskrebyshev and Dvinsky write that his pads were sometimes covered with the phrase ‘Lenin-teacher-friend’, but the last foreigner to visit him, in February 1953, noted that he was doodling wolves."
2
any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs wordnet
3
Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.; Any of several related canines that resemble Canis lupus in appearance, especially those of the genus Canis. countable
4
a cruelly rapacious person wordnet
5
A man who makes amorous advances to many women.

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6
a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women wordnet
7
A wolf tone or wolf note.
"The soft violin solo was marred by persistent wolves."
8
Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation. figuratively
"They toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door."
9
One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.
10
A white worm which infests granaries, the larva of Nemapogon granella, a tineid moth.
11
A wolf spider.
12
An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus. obsolete
"If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf into thy side"
13
A willying machine, to cleanse wool or willow.
"The loosening and purifying of the raw cotton from the various impurities , such as sand, grit, &c., is accomplished by beating with the hand, or by the Wolf machine, by means of a cylinder, the surface of which is covered with sharp iron teeth"

Verb

1
To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously. transitive
""Here's these legal ferrets has got our Puddin' in their clutches, and here's us, spellbound with anguish, watchin' them wolfin' it.""
2
eat hastily wordnet
3
To make amorous advances to many women; to hit on women; to cruise for sex. intransitive, slang
"[1940s Chicago punk:] ‘I’ve seen a thing or two in my time,’ he still liked to boast, ‘that was how I found out the best place for wolfin’ ain’t the taverns. It ain’t in dance halls ’r on North Clark on Saturday night. It’s in the front row in Sunday school on Sunday mornin’. Oh yeh, I know a thing or two, I been around.’"
4
To hunt for wolves. intransitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English wolf, from Old English wulf, ƿulf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos. Cognates Cognate with Scots wouf, North Frisian wulew, Saterland Frisian and German Low German Wulf, West Frisian, Alemannic German, and Dutch wolf, Bavarian bolf, bölf, Woif, Cimbrian and Mòcheno bolf, German Wolf, Luxembourgish Wollef, Vilamovian wuf, Yiddish וואָלף (volf), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk ulv, Faroese úlvur, Icelandic úlfur, Swedish ulf, ulv, Gothic 𐍅𐌿𐌻𐍆𐍃 (wulfs); also Irish and Scottish Gaelic olc (“bad, evil”), Lepontic 𐌖𐌋𐌊𐌏𐌔 (ulkos), Manx olk (“bad”), Sanskrit वृक (vṛ́ka), Persian گرگ (gorg), Latgalian vylks, Latvian vìlks, Lithuanian vilkas, Belarusian воўк (vowk), Bulgarian вълк (vǎlk), Czech and Slovak vlk, Macedonian and Russian волк (volk), Polish wilk, Serbo-Croatian вук, vuk, Slovene volk, Ukrainian вовк (vovk), Albanian ujk, ulk, Latin lupus, Greek λύκος (lýkos), Hittite 𒉿𒀠𒆪𒉿𒀸, Lydian 𐤥𐤠𐤩𐤥𐤤 (walwe, “lion”), Tocharian B walkwe. Doublet of lobo and lupus.

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

From wolf.

Etymology 4

From Middle English and German short forms of given names containing the Germanic element "wolf".

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