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| wolf | |
| 1. Substantiv: | |
| 2. [1] Zoologie: Wolf | |
| [1] This is a wolf. | |
| Das ist ein Wolf. | |
| Englisch > Englisch | |
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| wolf | |
| 1. subst. The gray wolf, specifically all subspecies of the gray wolf (Canis lupus) that are not dingoes or dogs. |  |
| 2. subst. A man who makes amorous advances to many women. | |
| 3. subst. (music) A wolf tone or wolf note. | |
| 4. subst. (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. subst. One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths. | |
| 6. subst. A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries. | |
| 7. subst. (obsolete) An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus. | |
| 8. subst. 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. | |
| Deutsch > Englisch | |
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| Wolf | |
| 1. subst. wolf | |
| 2. subst. (constellation) the constellation Lupus | |
| 3. subst. shredder, mincer | |
| 4. subst. skin abrasion (acquired on long hikes or marches, through the friction of one's clothes) | |
| 5. Proper noun. given name, male, dim=Wolfgang, q=also diminutive of other Germanic compound names beginning with Wolf- | |
| 6. Proper noun. surname, from=given names, q=or as a nickname from the animal, varform=Wolff | |
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