"wolfcub" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: wolfcubs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} wolfcub (plural wolfcubs)
  1. Alternative form of wolf cub Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: wolf cub
    Sense id: en-wolfcub-en-noun-ig3GQbIR Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1867, William Gilmore Simms, War Poetry of the South, Richardson & Company, page 175:",
          "text": "The bastard and the traitor, / The wolfcub and the snake, / The robber, swindler, hater, / Are in your homes—awake!",
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          "ref": "1870, Eiríkr Magnússon, William Morris (translators), unknown 13th-century author, Völsunga saga, F.S. Ellis, page 112",
          "text": "Thou shalt lose both realm and wealth, and thy life and me, for I shall fare home to my kin, and abide there in sorrow, unless thou slayest Sigurd and his son; never nourish thou a wolfcub."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, British Neo-Formalist Circle, University of Keele, Essays in poetics, v.11-13, University of Keele, page 88",
          "text": "If a wolfcub had raised its head with such a movement it would have been evident that it was about to howl."
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          "ref": "2002, Ian Whybrow, Tony Ross, Little Wolf, Pack Leader, Carolrhoda Books, page 62:",
          "text": "Then Normus said buttinly, “Oh, no, Little, this job is much too big for 1 small wolfcub. You say Spoiler and the RHYWP are gnashing for a bashing. […]”",
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          "ref": "2002, Mary Green, English for the More Able, volume 4, Folens Limited, page 29:",
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