wolf

(Inglés)

Noun

1. (countable) Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.
2. (countable) Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.
3. A man who makes amorous advances to many women.
4. A wolf tone or wolf note.
5. (figuratively) Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.
6. One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.
7. A white worm which infests granaries, the larva of Nemapogon granella, a tineid moth.
8. A wolf spider.
9. (obsolete) An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.
10. A willying machine, to cleanse wool or willow.

Verb

1. (transitive) To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.
2. (intransitive, slang) To make amorous advances to many women; to hit on women; to cruise for sex.
3. (intransitive) To hunt for wolves.

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/wʊlf/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: wolf

Herdado de Old English: wulf

Relativo a Saterfriesisch: Wulf

Relativo a neerlandés: wolf

Relativo a alemán: Wolf

Relativo a noruegués: -

Relativo a dinamarqués: ulv

Relativo a sánscrito: वृक

Relativo a persa: گرگ

Relativo a lituano: vilkas

Relativo a ruso: волк

Relativo a albanés: ujk

Relativo a latín: lupus

Relativo a grego: λύκος

Relativo a Tokharian B: walkwe

In summary

Inherited from Middle English wolf, from Old English wulf, ƿulf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos. See also Saterland Frisian Wulf, West Frisian and Dutch wolf, German Wolf, Norwegian and Danish ulv; also Sanskrit वृक (vṛ́ka), Persian گرگ (gorg), Lithuanian vilkas, Russian волк (volk), Albanian ujk, Latin lupus, Greek λύκος (lýkos), Tocharian B walkwe. Doublet of lobo and lupus.

Sinónimos

gobble

wolf down

devour

wolfish

guzzle

eat

🍽️

gobble up

ladies’ man

brute

scarf out

wild dog

scoff

gray wolf

masher

skirt chaser

wolf’s

dog

🐕

woman chaser

playboy

beast

jackal

wildcat

raven

womanizer

gormandizer

savage

put away

rake

roue

scarf

🧣

she-wolf

stuff

they

this way

timber wolf

tuck away

tuck in

werewolf

wicked

wolves

fress

gulp down

overgorge

grey

waste

shovel in

canis lupus

canis mexicanus

garbage down

canids