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Wolfskin vs Wolfkin - What's the difference?

wolfskin | wolfkin |

As nouns the difference between wolfskin and wolfkin

is that wolfskin is the skin of a wolf while wolfkin is a young or small wolf.

wolfskin

English

Noun

  • The skin of a wolf.

    • wolfkin

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A young or small wolf.
  • * 2009 , Maia Strong, The Ballad of Jimothy Redwing :
    • Arun is in training to be a priest of the Fire God when he is abruptly plucked from his peaceful studies, bespelled and staked out as bait to capture a monster—a wolfkin'. But the ' wolfkin isn't quite what Arun expected.
    Kite and kestrel, wolf and wolfkin , from the wilderness, wallow in it — Tennyson.

    Synonyms

    * (l)