Wolf-child

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A human child that has been raised by wolves from infancy.

    "Mr. Neilson also adds that a jemidar told him that when he was a lad he remembered going with others to see a wolf-child which had been netted."

  2. 2
    A being that is part wolf, part child.

    "Odin watched the wolf-child grow with foreboding, for in his dreams the wolf had been there at the end of everything[.]"

  3. 3
    A baby or young wolf. literary

Synonyms

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wolf cubwolf whelpwolfkinwolfling

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"Mr. Neilson also adds that a jemidar told him that when he was a lad he remembered going with others to see a wolf-child which had been netted."

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