"wolvish" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "wolf + -ish, with wolf inflected as in wolves.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more wolvish",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most wolvish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "word": "wolfish"
        }
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003 March 20, The Paducah Sun, volume 107, number 79, Paducah, Ky., page 1A",
          "text": "Good shepherd / Tubby has protected players, beat off wolvish critics for years. How his flock has grown.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, John Crowley, Lord Byron’s Novel: The Evening Land, William Morrow, page 23",
          "text": "His wolvish teeth now displayed in a gladsome smile, he takes hold of Ali’s arm, that still bears the useless pistol; […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006 February 9, Daily Herald, volume 83, number 193, page 11, column 4",
          "text": "The sequel to the surprise hit film about vampires and werewolves brings back both unlikely action hero Kate Beckinsale, a vampire, and her wolvish paramour (Scott Speedman).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006 June 19, Chris Hewett, “Unnatural selection leaves England way behind Wallabies”, in The Independent, number 6,138, page 52, column 3",
          "text": "“I felt sorry for Tom, in particular,” confessed Robinson, having seen the Leicester teenager thrown whole into the wolvish lair of the magnificently threatening Tuqiri.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, James Enge (pseudonym; James M. Pfundstein), The Wide World’s End (A Tournament of Shadows; book three), Amherst, N.Y.: Pyr, page 286",
          "text": "“You,” Morlock said to the werewolf on the next bench. “What are you, really?” The wolvish face looked on him, its reflective eyes as bright as little moons.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 April 16, Lawrence Toppman, “9 reasons you must meet the Wyeths at the Mint”, in The Charlotte Observer, volume 148, number 106, page 4C",
          "text": "This cover illustration for Washington Irving’s tale blends reality – the torn-coated rural New Yorker and his wolvish dog – with fantasy embodied by old Rip, a red-nosed rake with an absurdly plumed hat, sly expression and long white beard.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative spelling of wolfish."
      ],
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwʊlviʃ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wolvish"
}

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      },
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "wolf + -ish, with wolf inflected as in wolves.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more wolvish",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most wolvish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "word": "wolfish"
        }
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        "English 2-syllable words",
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        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with quotations"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003 March 20, The Paducah Sun, volume 107, number 79, Paducah, Ky., page 1A",
          "text": "Good shepherd / Tubby has protected players, beat off wolvish critics for years. How his flock has grown.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, John Crowley, Lord Byron’s Novel: The Evening Land, William Morrow, page 23",
          "text": "His wolvish teeth now displayed in a gladsome smile, he takes hold of Ali’s arm, that still bears the useless pistol; […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006 February 9, Daily Herald, volume 83, number 193, page 11, column 4",
          "text": "The sequel to the surprise hit film about vampires and werewolves brings back both unlikely action hero Kate Beckinsale, a vampire, and her wolvish paramour (Scott Speedman).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006 June 19, Chris Hewett, “Unnatural selection leaves England way behind Wallabies”, in The Independent, number 6,138, page 52, column 3",
          "text": "“I felt sorry for Tom, in particular,” confessed Robinson, having seen the Leicester teenager thrown whole into the wolvish lair of the magnificently threatening Tuqiri.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, James Enge (pseudonym; James M. Pfundstein), The Wide World’s End (A Tournament of Shadows; book three), Amherst, N.Y.: Pyr, page 286",
          "text": "“You,” Morlock said to the werewolf on the next bench. “What are you, really?” The wolvish face looked on him, its reflective eyes as bright as little moons.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 April 16, Lawrence Toppman, “9 reasons you must meet the Wyeths at the Mint”, in The Charlotte Observer, volume 148, number 106, page 4C",
          "text": "This cover illustration for Washington Irving’s tale blends reality – the torn-coated rural New Yorker and his wolvish dog – with fantasy embodied by old Rip, a red-nosed rake with an absurdly plumed hat, sly expression and long white beard.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative spelling of wolfish."
      ],
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwʊlviʃ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wolvish"
}