What does wolf mean?
Wolf means (countable) Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily..
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/wʊlf/ · noun
(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.
The soft violin solo was marred by persistent wolves.
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.”
If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf into thy side
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
"Here's these legal ferrets has got our Puddin' in their clutches, and here's us, spellbound with anguish, watchin' them wolfin' it."
Use wolf when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Wolf means (countable) Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily..
Common synonyms include loafer, lobo, lofer, loper.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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