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单词 wolf
释义

wolf

See also: Wolf

English

A wolf.

Etymology

From Middle English wolf, from Old English wulf, ƿulf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz (compare Saterland Frisian Wulf, West Frisian and Dutch wolf, German Wolf, Norwegian and Danish ulv), from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos (compare Sanskrit वृक (vṛ́ka), Persian گرگ‎ (gorg), Lithuanian vilkas, Russian волк (volk), Albanian ujk, Latin lupus, Greek λύκος (lýkos), Tocharian B walkwe). Doublet of lobo and lupus.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: wo͝olf
    • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /wʊlf/
    • (General American) IPA(key): /wʊlf/, [wʊ̠ɫf], [wɫ̩f][1]
    • (New Zealand) IPA(key): /wʊlf/, [wʊwf]
    • Audio (US)(file)
    • Audio (UK)(file)
  • enPR: wo͝of, IPA(key): /wʊf/ (now nonstandard)[1][2]
  • enPR: wŭlf, IPA(key): /wʌlf/ (obsolete)
  • Rhymes: -ʊlf

Noun

wolf (plural wolves)

  1. Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.
    Synonym: grey wolf
    • 1968, Conquest, Robert, “The Purge Begins”, in The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties‎, Macmillan Company, LCCN 68-17513, OCLC 1169910711, OL 21272570M, page 74:
      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.
    1. Any of several related canines that resemble Canis lupus in appearance, especially those of the genus Canis.
  2. A man who makes amorous advances to many women.
  3. (music) A wolf tone or wolf note.
    The soft violin solo was marred by persistent wolves.
  4. (figurative) 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
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071, page 85:
      “ […] 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.”
  5. One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.
  6. A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.
  7. A wolf spider.
  8. (obsolete) An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.
    • 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], OCLC 1203220866:
      If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf into thy side
  9. A willying machine, to cleanse wool or willow.
    • 1872, Johann Rudolph von Wagner, A handbook of Chemical Technology:
      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

Synonyms

  • loafer, lobo, lofer, loper, lover (Southwestern US dialects)

Hypernyms

  • (large wild canid): Canis lupus, canid

Hyponyms

  • (large wild canid): she-wolf, wolfess

Coordinate terms

  • (large wild canid): dingo, dog (members of Canis lupus not called wolf); coyote, jackal, fox (other canids)

Derived terms

  • Big Bad Wolf
  • cry wolf
  • grey wolf, gray wolf
  • he-wolf
  • keep the wolf from the door
  • Mexican wolf
  • raised by wolves
  • red wolf
  • seawolf (Anarhichas lupus)
  • she-wolf
  • Tasmanian wolf
  • werewolf
  • white wolf
  • wolf cub
  • wolf down
  • wolfess
  • wolfie
  • wolf in sheep's clothing
  • wolf interval
  • wolfish
  • wolflike
  • Wolf Point
  • wolf tone
  • wolf worm
  • wolfy
  • wolven

Descendants

  • → Ido: volfo (also from German)

Translations

constellation — see Lupus

References

  • wolf in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Verb

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.
    • 1987, James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia:
      After a wolfed burger dinner, I called the night number at Administrative Vice and inquired about known lesbian gathering places.
    • 2013, Neil Martin, Collected Stories of the Sea:
      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.
    • 1949, Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm:
      [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.

Synonyms

  • (devour, gobble): gulp down, wolf down

Translations

References

  1. “wolf”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
  2. Kristin Denham and Anne Lobeck, in Linguistics for Everyone: An Introduction (2009), page 136

Further reading

  • wolf on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • flow, fowl

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch wolf, from Middle Dutch wolf, from Old Dutch *wulf, *wolf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos.

Pronunciation

  • Audio(file)

Noun

wolf (plural wolwe)

  1. wolf

Alemannic German

Etymology

From Middle High German wolf, from Old High German wolf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz. Cognate with German Wolf, Dutch wolf, English wolf, Icelandic úlfur.

Noun

wolf m

  1. (Carcoforo, Formazza, Gressoney, Issime, Rimella and Campello Monti) wolf

References

  • Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Dutch

Twee wolven in de sneeuw. — Two wolves in the snow.

Etymology

From Middle Dutch wolf, from Old Dutch *wulf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʋɔlf/
  • audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: wolf
  • Rhymes: -ɔlf

Noun

wolf m (plural wolven, diminutive wolfje n, feminine wolvin)

  1. wolf, undomesticated Canis lupus
    Ze gingen de wolven bekijken in de dierentuin.
    They went to look at the wolves in the zoo.
  2. one of many other canids of the family Canidae, especially of the genus Canis
    Er bestaan verschillende soorten wolven.
    Various species of wolves exist.

Hypernyms

  • hondachtige

Hypernyms

  • hond

Holonyms

  • roedel

Derived terms

  • aardwolf
  • aarswolf
  • geldwolf
  • goudwolf
  • korenwolf
  • poolwolf
  • prairiewolf
  • rietwolf
  • waterwolf
  • weerwolf
  • woestijnwolf
  • wolfijzer
  • wolfsgod
  • wolfshond
  • wolfskers
  • wolfskind
  • wolfsklem
  • wolfsmelk
  • wolfsspin
  • wolvenroedel
  • wolvin
  • zeewolf
  • welp

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: wolf
  • Jersey Dutch: wâlf
  • Negerhollands: wuluwuluk
    • → Virgin Islands Creole: wuluwuluk (dated)

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *wulf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos.

Noun

wolf m

  1. wolf, grey wolf

Inflection

Declension of wolf (strong)
SingularPlural
nominativewolfwolve
accusativewolfwolve
genitivewolfswolve
dativewolfwolven

Derived terms

  • wēerwolf

Descendants

  • Dutch: wolf
    • Afrikaans: wolf
    • Jersey Dutch: wâlf
    • Negerhollands: wuluwuluk
      • → Virgin Islands Creole: wuluwuluk (dated)
  • Limburgish: wólf

Further reading

  • “wolf (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “wolf (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • wulf, woulf, wolfe

Etymology

From Old English wulf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wulf/

Noun

wolf (plural wolves, diminutive wolfy, wolfie)

  1. wolf, lupine
  2. terrifying person

Descendants

  • English: wolf
    • → Ido: volfo (also from German)
  • Scots: wolf, woulf, wouff

Middle High German

Etymology

From Old High German wolf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos.

Noun

wolf m

  1. wolf

Descendants

  • Alemannic German: wolf (Italian Walser)
  • Bavarian:
    Cimbrian: bolf
    Mòcheno: bolf
    Udinese: bolf, bölf
  • German: Wolf
  • Hunsrik: Wollef
  • Luxembourgish: Wollef
  • Pennsylvania German: Wolf
  • Vilamovian: wūf
  • Yiddish: וואָלף‎ (volf)

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wolf/

Noun

wolf m (plural wolfa)

  1. wolf

Declension

Declension of wolf (masculine a-stem)
casesingularplural
nominativewolfwolfa
accusativewolfwolfa
genitivewolfeswolfo
dativewolfewolfum
instrumentalwolfu—

Derived terms

  • wolfbizzo
  • Wolfgang

Descendants

  • Middle High German: wolf
    • Alemannic German: wolf (Italian Walser)
    • Bavarian:
      Cimbrian: bolf
      Mòcheno: bolf
      Udinese: bolf, bölf
    • German: Wolf
    • Hunsrik: Wollef
    • Luxembourgish: Wollef
    • Pennsylvania German: Wolf
    • Vilamovian: wūf
    • Yiddish: וואָלף‎ (volf)

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian wolf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos.

Noun

wolf c (plural wolven, diminutive wolfke)

  1. wolf

Further reading

  • “wolf”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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