wolf-child
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[edit]Noun
[edit]wolf-child (plural wolf-children)
- A human child that has been raised by wolves from infancy.
- 1898 January, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, Philadelphia, page 121:
- Mr. Neilson also adds that a jemidar told him that when he was a lad he remembered going with others to see a wolf-child which had been netted.
- (mythology, fantasy) A being that is part wolf, part child.
- 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 78:
- Odin watched the wolf-child grow with foreboding, for in his dreams the wolf had been there at the end of everything[.]
- (literary) A baby or young wolf.
- Synonyms: wolf cub, wolfkin, wolfling, wolf whelp
Translations
[edit]baby or young wolf — see wolf cub