| Engelsk > Engelsk |
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| wolf |
| 1. n. The gray wolf, specifically all subspecies of the gray wolf (Canis lupus) that are not dingoes or dogs. |
| 2. n. A man who makes amorous advances to many women. |
| 3. n. (music) A wolf tone or wolf note. |
| 4. n. (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 |
| 5. n. One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths. |
| 6. n. A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries. |
| 7. n. (obsolete) An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus. |
| 8. n. A willying machine. |
| 9. v. To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously. |
| 10. v. (intransitive, slang) To make amorous advances to many women; to hit on women; to cruise for sex. |
| 11. v. (intransitive) To hunt for wolves. |
| Svenska > Engelsk |
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| varg |
| 1. n-c. wolf (a canid) |
| Vargarna ylade i skogen - The wolves howled in the forest |
| 2. n-c. a tree with a large crown and thick branches which steals sunlight and space from other smaller trees |
| 3. n-c. (colloquial) reject; a rejected defective product in a production line |
| 4. n-c. (colloquial by extension) the damage itself on the product |
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