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wolf
  1. The gray wolf, specifically all subspecies of the gray wolf (Canis lupus) that are not dingoes or dogs.
  2. A man who makes amorous advances on many women.
  3. (music) A wolf tone or wolf note.
  4. One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.
  5. (figuratively) Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.
  6. A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.
  7. (obsolete) An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.
  8. A willying machine.
  9. Synonyms:
  10. Examples:
    1. “I saw a large gray wolf step from the shadow of a huge round rock.”
      “He was like a scheming wolf, using his gentlest smile to lure his prey into the trap step by step.”
      “The couplet contrasts the faithless lover wandering as a philandering wolf beneath the full moon with the lady lying in the dark within her bedroom, quiet and motionless.”
wolfer
  1. One who devours food greedily.
  2. One who hunts and kills wolves.
  3. Examples:
    1. “They were in traveling dress, and Lady wolfer looked pale and in trouble, while wolfer's face was grave and stern.”
      “You always had your own way while you were at wolfer House, and I see you haven't changed.”
      “The trail of meat dragged along and the poison baits had been laid the day before by wolfer Jake.”
wolfkin
  1. (fantasy) Any of various nonhuman and non-wolf fantasy creatures that have features of a wolf.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “There was a rumour that the rare wolfkin had been sighted in the botanical gardens in the west of the city.”
      “Kite and kestrel, wolf and wolfkin, from the wilderness, wallow in it.”
      Wolfkin are humanoid wolves. They have long wolf faces and thick fur. They walk on the tips of their long feet and have thick ragged wolf tails.”
wolfkind
  1. The entirety of wolves; all wolves collectively as a group.
wolven
  1. One who is wolflike in appearance or character.
wolfishness
wolfdom
  1. The world of wolves.
wolfhood
  1. The state or time of being a wolf.
wolfs
  1. Misspelling of wolves.
wolfe
  1. Obsolete spelling of wolf
  2. Examples:
    1. “If the taile of a wolfe be hung in the cratch of Oxen, they can never eat their meate.”
      Wolfe needs Fritz, I feel, more than he needs Theodore, or you, the legman.”
      “And, as Cary Wolfe and others have noted, the animalization of the Other is not confined to race.”
wolfkin
  1. A young or small wolf.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “There was a rumour that the rare wolfkin had been sighted in the botanical gardens in the west of the city.”
      “Kite and kestrel, wolf and wolfkin, from the wilderness, wallow in it.”
      Wolfkin are humanoid wolves. They have long wolf faces and thick fur. They walk on the tips of their long feet and have thick ragged wolf tails.”
wolfy
  1. diminutive of wolf
wolfie
  1. diminutive of wolf
wolfies
  1. plural of wolfy
  2. plural of wolfie
wolfkins
wolfers
  1. plural of wolfer
wolfes
  1. plural of wolfe
wolves
  1. plural of wolf
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “If wolves come into contact with domestic dogs, they pick up diseases and may cross-breed.”
      “Readers may have heard about a pack of wolves or a litter of puppies, but do they know which animals make up a gaggle or a murder?”
      “Never did a sheep wander away, never a one was attacked by wolves, never a one lost in foul weather.”
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