wolf

He would listen quietly at meetings of the Politburo, or to distinguished visitors, puffing at his Dunhill pipe, doodling aimlessly - his secretaries Poskrebyshev and Dvinsky write that his pads were sometimes covered with the phrase ‘Lenin-teacher-friend’, but the last foreigner to visit him, in February 1953, noted that he was doodling wolves.

1968, Robert Conquest, “The Purge Begins”, in The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties, Macmillan Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 74:

(countable) Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.

Any of several related canines that resemble Canis lupus in appearance, especially those of the genus Canis.

A man who makes amorous advances to many women.

The soft violin solo was marred by persistent wolves.

They toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.

the bee wolf

“[…] Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.”

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 85:

(figurative) Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.

One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.

A white worm which infests granaries, the larva of Nemapogon granella, a tineid moth.

If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf into thy side

1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:

(obsolete) An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.

The loosening and purifying of the raw cotton from the various impurities , such as sand, grit, &c., is accomplished by beating with the hand, or by the Wolf machine, by means of a cylinder, the surface of which is covered with sharp iron teeth

1872, Johann Rudolph von Wagner, A handbook of Chemical Technology:

A willying machine, to cleanse wool or willow.

the wolf may lose his teeth but never his nature

who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl

→ Ido: volfo (also from German)

ө̆вәр кӱрәп ө̆т

ø̆wər kürəp ø̆t

faldiller

man who makes amorous advances on many women

Inherited from Middle English wolf, from Old English wulf, ƿulf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos. See also Saterland Frisian Wulf, West Frisian and Dutch wolf, German Wolf, Norwegian and Danish ulv; also Sanskrit वृक (vṛ́ka), Persian گرگ (gorg), Lithuanian vilkas, Russian волк (volk), Albanian ujk, Latin lupus, Greek λύκος (lýkos), Tocharian B walkwe. Doublet of lobo and lupus.


wolf

"Here's these legal ferrets has got our Puddin' in their clutches, and here's us, spellbound with anguish, watchin' them wolfin' it."

1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 150:

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.

2013, Neil Martin, Collected Stories of the Sea:

(transitive) To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.

[1940s Chicago punk:] ‘I’ve seen a thing or two in my time,’ he still liked to boast, ‘that was how I found out the best place for wolfin’ ain’t the taverns. It ain’t in dance halls ’r on North Clark on Saturday night. It’s in the front row in Sunday school on Sunday mornin’. Oh yeh, I know a thing or two, I been around.’

1949, Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm:

(intransitive, slang) To make amorous advances to many women; to hit on women; to cruise for sex.

en-verb

wolf (third-person singular simple present wolfs, present participle wolfing, simple past and past participle wolfed)

wolfs (present singular third-person)
wolfing (participle present)
wolfed (participle past)
wolfed (past)
wolve (alternative)