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A large wild canid of certain subspecies of Canis lupus .
A man who makes amorous advances on many women.
(music) A wolf tone or wolf note; an unpleasant tone produced when a note matches the natural resonating frequency of the body of a musical instrument, the quality of which may be likened to the howl of a wolf.
One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.
(figurative) Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.
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, title= A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.
(obsolete) An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.
* Jeremy Taylor
A willying machine.
To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.
* 1987 , James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia
* 2013 , Neil Martin, Collected Stories of the Sea
Tending or apt to intrude; doing that which is not welcome; interrupting or disturbing; entering without right or welcome.
(geology) Of rocks: forced, while in a plastic or molten state, into the cavities or between the cracks or layers of other rocks.
(geology) An igneous rock that is forced, while molten, into cracks or between other layers of rock
As a proper noun wolf
is the constellation or wolf can be .As an adjective intrusive is
tending or apt to intrude; doing that which is not welcome; interrupting or disturbing; entering without right or welcome.As a noun intrusive is
(geology) an igneous rock that is forced, while molten, into cracks or between other layers of rock.wolf
English
Noun
(wolves)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“
- If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf into thy side.
- (Knight)
Hypernyms
* (large wild canid) Canis lupus , canidHyponyms
* (large wild canid) she-wolfCoordinate terms
* (large wild canid) dingo, dog ; coyote, jackal, fox (other canids)Derived terms
(terms derived from "wolf") * Big Bad Wolf * cry wolf * grey wolf, gray wolf * Mexican wolf * raised by wolves * red wolf * sea wolf * she-wolf * Tasmanian wolf * werewolf * white wolf * wolf cub * wolf down * wolf in sheep's clothing * wolf interval * wolfie * wolfish * wolflike * wolf tone * wolvenVerb
- After a wolfed burger dinner, I called the night number at Administrative Vice and inquired about known lesbian gathering places.
- Vicars seated himself and began wolfing a sandwich.
Synonyms
* gulp down, wolf downExternal links
* (wikipedia)Anagrams
* ----intrusive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Did it ever cross your mind that he might find all those questions you ask intrusive ?