Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - wolf
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~1 n plural wolves, 1 a wild animal that looks like a large dog and lives and hunts in groups (a pack of wolves) 2 a wolf in sheep's clothing someone who seems to be friendly but is in fact, unpleasant etc 3 cry wolf to keep asking for help that you do not really need, with the result that when you do need help people do not believe you (Jurgen's cried wolf one too many times. I'm sick of it!) 4 keep the wolf from the door to earn just enough money to buy the basic things you need (Between us, we earn just enough to keep the wolf from the door.) (- see also lone wolf) - wolfish adj (a wolfish grin) ~2 also wolf down ~ v informal to eat something very quickly, swallowing it in big pieces
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(wolves, wolfs, wolfing, wolfed) 1. A wolf is a wild animal that looks like a large dog. N-COUNT 2. If someone wolfs their food, they eat it all very quickly and greedily. (INFORMAL) I was back in the changing-room wolfing tea and sandwiches. VERB: V n • Wolf down means the same as wolf. He wolfed down the rest of the biscuit and cheese... She bought a hot dog from a stand on a street corner and wolfed it down. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P 3. If someone cries wolf, they say that there is a problem when there is not, with the result that people do not believe them when there really is a problem. PHRASE: V inflects ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. noun (plural wolves) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Old English wulf; akin to Old High German ~ ~, Latin lupus, Greek lykos Date: before 12th century 1. plural also ~ a. any of several large predatory canids (genus Canis) that live and hunt in packs and resemble the related dogs; especially gray ~ — compare coyote, jackal b. the fur of a ~ 2. a. (1) a fierce, rapacious, or destructive person (2) a man forward, direct, and zealous in amatory attentions to women b. dire poverty ; starvation keep the ~ from the door c. the maggot of a warble fly 3. German; from the howling sound a. (1) dissonance in some chords on organs, pianos, or other instruments with fixed tones tuned by unequal temperament (2) an instance of such dissonance b. a harshness due to faulty vibration in various tones in a bowed instrument • ~like adjective II. transitive verb Date: 1862 to eat greedily ; devour WOLF I. biographical name Friedrich August 1759-1824 German philologist II. biographical name Hugo Philipp Jakob 1860-1903 Austrian composer ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. (pl. wolves) 1 a wild flesh-eating tawny-grey mammal related to the dog, esp. Canis lupus, preying on sheep etc. and hunting in packs. 2 sl. a man given to seducing women. 3 a rapacious or greedy person. 4 Mus. a a jarring sound from some notes in a bowed instrument. b an out-of-tune effect when playing certain chords on old organs (before the present 'equal temperament' was in use). --v.tr. (often foll. by down) devour (food) greedily. Phrases and idioms cry wolf raise repeated false alarms (so that a genuine one is disregarded). have (or hold) a wolf by the ears be in a precarious position. keep the wolf from the door avert hunger or starvation. lone wolf a person who prefers to act alone. throw to the wolves sacrifice without compunction. wolf-cub 1 a young wolf. 2 Brit. the former name for a Cub Scout. wolf-fish any large voracious blenny of the genus Anarrhichas. wolf in sheep's clothing a hostile person who pretends friendship. wolf-pack an attacking group of submarines or aircraft. wolf's-milk spurge. wolf-spider any ground-dwelling spider of the family Lycosidae, hunting instead of trapping its prey. wolf-whistle n. a sexually admiring whistle by a man to a woman. --v.intr. make a wolf-whistle. Derivatives wolfish adj. wolfishly adv. wolflike adj. & adv. Etymology: OE wulf f. Gmc ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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волк; (обыкновенный) волк (Canis lupus) – Abyssinian wolf – bitch wolf – common wolf – dog wolf – earth wolf – European wolf – Indian wolf – maned wolf – marsupial wolf – prairie wolf – red wolf – sea wolf – steppe wolf – strand wolf – Tasmanian wolf – timber wolf – zebra wolf ...Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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1. зоол. волк (Canis lupus) 2. волчий мех 3. жестокий, безжалостный или жадный человек; волк, хищник 4. ам. разг. бабник; волокита, сердцеед 5. ам. воен. жарг. старшина (роты) Id: to cry wolf —- поднимать ложную тревогу Id: to have a wolf in one's stomach —- сильно проголодаться Id: to see (to have seen) a wolf —- лишаться дара речи; язык прилип к гортани Id: to keep the wolf from the door —- бороться с угрожающей нищетой; перебиваться с хлеба на квас Id: to wake a sleeping wolf —- напрашиваться на неприятности Id: to have (to hold) a wolf by the ears —- быть в безвыходном положении, не иметь пути к отступлению Id: a wolf in a lamb's skin (in sheep's clothing) —- волк в овечьей шкуре 6. заглатывать (пищу) с жадностью (часто wolf down) 7. ам. сл. бегать, волочиться за каждой юбкой 8. ам. сл. отбивать девушку (у кого-л.) 9. редк. поднимать ложную тревогу ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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in sheeps clothing волк в овечьей шкуре WOLF 1. noun 1) волк 2) обжора 3) жестокий, злой человек 4) coll. бабник, волокита 5) amer.; mil.; sl. старшина (роты и т.п.) to keep the wolf from the door - перебиваться; бороться с нищетой to have the wolf in the stomach - быть голодным, умирать с голоду - cry wolf 2. v. coll. пожирать с жадностью (часто wolf down) Syn: see eat ...Англо-русский словарь
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mil. abbr. Win Or Lose Fight mil. abbr. Walking Operational Land Format religion abbr. Word Of Life Fellowship, Inc. ...English abbreviation dictionary
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- O.E. wulf, from P.Gmc. *wulfaz, from PIE *wlqwos/*lukwos, from base *wlp-/*lup-. The verb meaning "eat like a wolf" is attested from 1862. Sense of "sexually aggressive male" first recorded 1847; wolf-whistle first attested 1952. See here for a discussion of "wolf" in I.E. history. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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