Definition of "wolf" in Anglais

noun

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

2. A man who makes amorous advances to many women.

3. (music) A wolf tone or wolf note.

   • The soft violin solo was marred by persistent wolves.

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

   • They toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.
   • the bee wolf

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

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

7. A wolf spider.

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

9. A willying machine, to cleanse wool or willow.

verb

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

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

3. (intransitive) To hunt for wolves.