wolf

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   eat hastily

   The teenager wolfed down the pizza

2. 2
   noun

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

   He would listen quietly at meetings of the Politburo, or to distinguished visitors, puffing at his Dunhill pipe, doodling aimlessly - his secretaries Poskrebyshev and Dvinsky write that his pads were sometimes covered with the phrase ‘Lenin-teacher-friend’, but the last foreigner to visit him, in February 1953, noted that he was doodling wolves.

3. 3
   noun

   A wolf tone or wolf note.

   The soft violin solo was marred by persistent wolves.

4. 4
   noun

   Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.

   They toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.

5. 5
   noun

   An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.

   If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf into thy side

6. 6
   noun

   A willying machine, that uses willow twigs to cleanse wool.

   The loosening and purifying of the raw cotton from the various impurities , such as sand, grit, &c., is accomplished by beating with the hand, or by the Wolf machine, by means of a cylinder, the surface of which is covered with sharp iron teeth

7. 7
   verb

   To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.

   "Here's these legal ferrets has got our Puddin' in their clutches, and here's us, spellbound with anguish, watchin' them wolfin' it."

8. 8
   verb

   To make amorous advances to many women; to hit on women; to cruise for sex.

   [1940s Chicago punk:] ‘I’ve seen a thing or two in my time,’ he still liked to boast, ‘that was how I found out the best place for wolfin’ ain’t the taverns. It ain’t in dance halls ’r on North Clark on Saturday night. It’s in the front row in Sunday school on Sunday mornin’. Oh yeh, I know a thing or two, I been around.’

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 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 Wolf, Luxembourgish Wollef, V…