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Gray wolf.
Gray wolf.

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From Middle English < Old English wulf < Proto-Germanic *wulfaz < Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos. Cognates include Sanskrit वृक (vṛ́ka), Polish wilk', Lithuanian vilkas', Russian волк (volk), Albanian ulk, Latin lupus and probably vulpes (“‘fox’”) and Ancient Greek λύκος (lukos).

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Singular
wolf

Plural
wolves

wolf (plural wolves)

  1. A large wild canid (member of the dog family), closely related to, and at times consanguineous to the domestic dog, which is considered a subspecies of the wolf.
  2. (the Wolf) The constellation Lupus.
  3. A man who makes amorous advances on many women.

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terms derived from "wolf"

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animal
constellation

See Lupus
man who makes amorous advances on many women

[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to wolf

Third person singular
wolfs

Simple past
wolfed

Past participle
wolfed

Present participle
wolfing

to wolf (third-person singular simple present wolfs, present participle wolfing, simple past and past participle wolfed)

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

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to wolf

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wolf (plural wolwe, diminutive wolfie, plural dimunutive wolfies)

  1. wolf

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wolf m. (plural wolven, diminutive wolfje, plural diminutive wolfjes)

  1. wolf

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wolf m.

  1. wolf

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wolf

  1. wolf
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