Definitions for wolfish

wolfish wolf·ish

Spelling: [woo l-fish]
IPA: /ˈwʊl fɪʃ/

Wolfish is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 109 anagrams from letters in wolfish (fhilosw).

Definitions for wolfish

adjective

  1. resembling a wolf, as in form or characteristics.
  2. characteristic of or befitting a wolf; fiercely rapacious.

Origin of wolfish

First recorded in 1560-70; wolf + -ish1

Examples for wolfish

Even the barking of a farm-yard dog had a wolfish and savage suggestiveness.

Alick again began to turn, I thought, wolfish eyes at Bouncer.

It was an ominous sound, with something of wolfish ferocity in it.

At seven o'clock his hunger was wolfish; and still his mind was not made up.

Had his visage been at all wolfish in character, his aspect would have been terrible.

The bristling mane, so thick and wolfish, fairly quivered in its rigidity.

Dogged and wolfish as he was, the man knew his master, and was cowed.

The sudden, wolfish gleam in his eyes had told her that he meant what he said.

The ocean wind tore at the windows with wolfish claws, savage to enter.

"You're not going to get a complete inspection, Buster," he said with a wolfish grin.

Word Value for wolfish
Scrable

16

Words with friends

16

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