"wolf-child" meaning in English

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          "name": "Wolves",
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          "ref": "1898 January 14, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, Philadelphia, page 121:",
          "text": "Mr. Neilson also adds that a jemidar told him that when he was a lad he remembered going with others to see a wolf-child which had been netted.",
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        "A human child that has been raised by wolves from infancy."
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          "ref": "2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 78:",
          "text": "Odin watched the wolf-child grow with foreboding, for in his dreams the wolf had been there at the end of everything[.]",
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        "A being that is part wolf, part child."
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        "(mythology, fantasy) A being that is part wolf, part child."
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      "glosses": [
        "A baby or young wolf."
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        "(literary) A baby or young wolf."
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "wolf cub"
        },
        {
          "word": "wolfkin"
        },
        {
          "word": "wolfling"
        },
        {
          "word": "wolf whelp"
        }
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  "word": "wolf-child"
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        "(mythology, fantasy) A being that is part wolf, part child."
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      "glosses": [
        "A baby or young wolf."
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        "(literary) A baby or young wolf."
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "wolf cub"
        },
        {
          "word": "wolfkin"
        },
        {
          "word": "wolfling"
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        {
          "word": "wolf whelp"
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  "word": "wolf-child"
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