wolf
//wʊlf//
Forms
- Plural
- wolves
- present (v1)
- wolf
- past (v2)
- wolfed
- past participle (v3)
- wolfed
- present participle
- wolfing
- 3rd person singular
- wolfs
Definitions
1.Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.
2.A man who makes amorous advances to many women.
3.Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.
- They toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.
4.A wolf tone or wolf note.
- The soft violin solo was marred by persistent wolves.
1.To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.
- Vicars seated himself and began wolfing a sandwich.
- After a wolfed burger dinner, I called the night number at Administrative Vice and inquired about known lesbian gathering places.
- "Here's these legal ferrets has got our Puddin' in their clutches, and here's us, spellbound with anguish, watchin' them wolfin' it."
2.To make amorous advances to many women; to hit on women; to cruise for sex.(slang)
3.To hunt for wolves.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2735
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wl̥kʷós?
Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos
Proto-Germanic *wulfaz
Proto-West Germanic *wulf
Old English wulf
Middle English wolf
English wolf