wolf

noun

1. (countable)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.”

2. (countable)Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.
3. A man who makes amorous advances to many women.
4. A wolf tone or wolf note.

   “The soft violin solo was marred by persistent wolves.”

5. (figuratively)Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.

   “They toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.”

   “the bee wolf”

   ““[…] Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.””

6. One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.
7. A white worm which infests granaries, the larva of Nemapogon granella, a tineid moth.
8. A wolf spider (Lycosidae spp.).
9. (obsolete)An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.

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

10. 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”

verb

1. (transitive)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."”

   “After a wolfed burger dinner, I called the night number at Administrative Vice and inquired about known lesbian gathering places.”

   “Vicars seated himself and began wolfing a sandwich.”

2. (intransitive, slang)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.’”

3. (intransitive)To hunt for wolves.

name

1. The constellation Lupus.
2. A surname transferred from the given name.
3. A male given name.