wolf

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Meaning

1. Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.
2. 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. 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.

ladies’ man

scarf out

wild dog

wolf’s

woman chaser

fress

shovel in

canis lupus

canis mexicanus

garbage down

bolt down

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/wʊlf/

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.