Definitions for wolfs

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wolfs wolf

Spelling: [woo lf]

IPA: /wʊlf/

Wolfs is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 42 anagrams from letters in wolfs (flosw).

Definitions for wolfs

noun

1. any of several large carnivorous mammals of the genus Canis, of the dog family Canidae, especially C. lupus, usually hunting in packs, formerly common throughout the Northern Hemisphere but now chiefly restricted to the more unpopulated parts of its range.
2. the fur of such an animal.
3. any of various wolflike animals of different families, as the thylacine.
4. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. the constellation Lupus.
5. the larva of any of various small insects infesting granaries.
6. a cruelly rapacious person.
7. Informal. a man who makes amorous advances to many women.
8. Music. the harsh discord heard in certain chords of keyboard instruments, especially the organ, when tuned on some system of unequal temperament. a chord or interval in which such a discord appears. (in bowed instruments) a discordant or false vibration in a string due to a defect in structure or adjustment of the instrument.
9. Baron Christian von, Christian von Wolff.
10. Friedrich August [free-drikh ou-goo st] /ˈfri drɪx ˈaʊ gʊst/ (Show IPA), 1759–1824, German classical scholar.
11. Hugo [hoo-goh] /ˈhu goʊ/ (Show IPA), 1860–1903, Austrian composer.
12. a male given name.

Idioms

1. cry wolf, to give a false alarm:
2. keep the wolf from the door, to avert poverty or starvation; provide sufficiently for:
3. throw to the wolves. throw (def 57).
4. wolf in sheep's clothing, a person who conceals his or her evil intentions or character beneath an innocent exterior.

verb (used with object)

1. to devour voraciously (often followed by down):

verb (used without object)

1. to hunt for wolves.

Origin of wolfs

before 900; Middle English; Old English wulf; cognate with German Wolf, Old Norse ulfr, Gothic wulfs, Polish wilk, Lithuanian vil̃kas, Sanskrit vṛka; akin to Latin lupus, Greek lýkos

Examples for wolfs

Well, I havent my Alice-doll here, so I dont care about wolfs.

I bear the scars of the wolfs teeth yet; you came in the nick of time, that day.

His object was to descend, cat-like, on the wolfs neck, and to claw out his eyes.

The wolfs led the procession, with Barbara and Norman by their side.

His shoulders were covered with a red shirt153 and a wolfs skin.

Do this though I undo you, though I rend you, tear you with my sharp teeth so like a wolfs.

Lambs have a silly faculty of running directly in the wolfs road.

The wolfs advised Norman that no mail service be asked or permitted.

And after we heard that link, and know that there are bears and wolfs aboutO-o-oh!

She told me not to say that it is a mans and a wolfs brains and I do not say it.