Wolf

Noun

 * 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) A man who makes amorous advances on many women.
 * 3)  A wolf interval. An unpleasant musical discord produced on a string or keyboard instrument.

Verb

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

Adjectives for Wolf
marauding; placid; huge; savage; vicious; sedate; raging; rabid; murderous; angry; hungry; gigantic; famished; frail; little; woolly; fierce; stray;

Verbs for Wolf
pay a bounty on—s; —s assemble; —s chase; —s devastate; —s infest; —s overpower; — preys on; —prowls; —pursues; —ranges;—runs down; —skulks; —slinks; —snarls; —stalks; —s terrorize; —s troop ; —s visit.

Thesaurus
brush wolf, brute, cacophony, chaser, clinker, coyote, cram, debauchee, demon, devil, devour, dingo, discord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony, dissonance, dissonancy, dissonant chord, dragon, engorge, fiend, fire-eater, firebrand, flatness, fool around, fox, fury, gallant, gay deceiver, gay dog, glut, gluttonize, gobble, goon, gorge, gorilla, gormandize, gulp, gulp down, gunsel, guttle, guzzle, hardnose, heartbreaker, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hothead, hotspur, hyena, incendiary, ingurgitate, inharmoniousness, inharmony, jackal, killer, lady-killer, lecher, libertine, live to eat, lobo, lover-boy, mad dog, madcap, masher, medicine wolf, mess around, monster, mugger, off note, philander, philanderer, play around, prairie wolf, profligate, rake, rakehell, rapist, raven, revolutionary, reynard, rip, roue, rounder, savage, seducer, sharpness, she-wolf, skirt chaser, slop, slosh, sour note, sourness, spitfire, stridor, stuff, swinger, termagant, terror, terrorist, tiger, tigress, timber wolf, tough, tough guy, tunelessness, ugly customer, unharmoniousness, unmusicality, untunefulness, violent, virago, vixen, walking phallus, wanton, wild beast, witch, wolf down, woman chaser, womanize, womanizer, African hunting dog, Cape hunting dog, Casanova, Don Juan, Lothario, Mafioso, Young Turk, amorist, atonalism, atonality, batten, beast, beldam, bolt, bolt down, bomber,

Etymology
, from wulf:, from, from ; akin to  वृक:,  گرگ:,  vilkas:,  волк:,  ujk:,  lupus:,  λύκος:.

Synonyms

 * Canis lupus
 * gulp down, wolf down

Hyponyms

 * she-wolf

Hypernyms

 * canid

Derived terms

 * cry wolf
 * grey wolf, gray wolf
 * Mexican wolf
 * red wolf
 * sea wolf
 * she-wolf


 * Tasmanian wolf
 * werewolf
 * wolf cub
 * wolf down
 * wolf in sheep's clothing
 * wolfish

Noun

 * Abaza:
 * Abkhaz: абгаду, ақәыџьма
 * Adyghe:
 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic: ذئب, ذئاب
 * Egyptian: (diib)
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian:
 * Asturian: llobu, lloba
 * Avar: бацӀ
 * Azeri:, qurd
 * Bashkir:
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian:, ваўчыца
 * Blackfoot: omahkapi'si
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton:, bleizi
 * Bulgarian:, вълчица
 * Buryat:
 * Catalan:, lloba
 * Central Atlas Tamazight: uccen
 * Chagatai:
 * Chechen: борз (borz)
 * Cherokee: ᏩᏯ (waya)
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Chuvash:
 * Coptic:
 * Cornish:
 * Cree: mahihkan
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dolgan:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: ,
 * Ewe: amegãxi
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Gilaki: (varg)
 * Gothic:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hawaiian: ʻīlio hae
 * Hebrew: זאב
 * Hindi: भेड़िया
 * Hopi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingush: борз (borz)
 * Inuktitut: ᐊᒪᕈᖅ (amaruq)
 * Irish:, , ,
 * Italian:
 * Itelmen: ,
 * Japanese: 狼, オオカミ
 * Jicarilla: ba’iitso
 * Kalmyk:
 * Karachay-Balkar:
 * Karakalpak: ,
 * Kazakh: бөрі, қасқыр
 * Ket: қыт (qyt)
 * Khakas:
 * Korean: 늑대, 이리
 * Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: бөрү, карышкыр
 * Lakota: shung manitu tanka
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin: lupus, lupi ; lupa , lupae


 * Latvian:, vilcene
 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Lojban: labno
 * Luxembourgish: Wollef, Wëllef
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: ,
 * Manx: ,
 * Mi'kmaq: paqtesm, paqtesmug
 * Mingo: utháyôni
 * Mingrelian:
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo:
 * Nenets: ӈылека, сармик
 * Nganasan: ӈӱлиаӡә
 * Nogai:
 * Norwegian: ulv, varg; ulvebinne, ulvinne (female wolf, poetic, rare daily speech)
 * Occitan: lop
 * Ojibwe: ma'iingan, ma'iinganag
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Glagolitic:
 * Old English:
 * Old Irish:, , , , ,
 * Ossetian:
 * Pashto: ,
 * Persian: گرگ
 * Plains Apache: ba’
 * Polish:, , ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romani: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Samogitian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Roman: vuk, vučica
 * Seri: xeecoj, ziix yacö caixaj
 * Shor:
 * Slovak:, vlčica
 * Slovene:, volkulja
 * Southern Altai:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: mbwa mwitu sg/pl (noun 9/10)
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil: ஓநாய்
 * Taos: kòléna
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: తోడేలు (tODealu)
 * Thai: สุนัขบ้า, หมาป่า
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen:, gurt, möjek
 * Tuvan:
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Urdu: بھیڑیا
 * Uyghur: قۇرت
 * Uzbek: boʻri, qashqir
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: lup,  hilup,  jilup,  ludog,  omludog, obsolete, female
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: wolf
 * Western Apache: ma’choh, ba’choh
 * Yakut:
 * Yiddish:
 * Zulu: impisi
 * Yiddish:
 * Zulu: impisi

Verb

 * Arabic:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German: herunterschlingen
 * Greek: καταβροχθίζω (katavroxθízo), χλαπακιάζω (xlapacázo)
 * Hebrew: זלל (zalal)
 * Korean: 게걸스레 먹다 (gegeolseure meokda)


 * Latin:
 * Polish: pożreć, pochłonąć
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: пожирать, пожрать
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: -akia, -la, -sakata
 * Thai: (khà màhm),  (swáá bpaam)

Anagrams

 * flow fowl

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


 * 1) wolf

Noun

 * 1) wolf

Etymology
From *wulf, *wolf, from.

Related terms

 * welp
 * wolvin

Etymology
wulf:

Noun
wolf


 * 1) wolf

Noun
wolf ( wolven)


 * 1) wolf