wolf
Pronunciation: /wʊlf/
The English word “wolf” has 13 meanings listed here.
noun
- 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.
- A man who makes amorous advances to many women.
- A wolf tone or wolf note.
- Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.
- One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.
- A white worm which infests granaries, the larva of Nemapogon granella, a tineid moth.
- A wolf spider (Lycosidae spp.).
- An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.
- A willying machine, that uses willow twigs to cleanse wool.
verb
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English wolf, from Old English wulf, ƿulf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos. Doublet of lobo and lupus. 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…
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