wolfとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: wo͝olf
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /wʊlf/
  • (General American) IPA: /wʊlf/, [wʊɫf], [wɵɫf]
    • (Southern 米国発音) IPA: [wʟ̩ːf]
  • (New Zealand) IPA: /wʊlf/, [wʊwf]
  • (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA: /wʉlf/
• enPR: wo͝of, IPA: /wʊf/ (now nonstandard)
• enPR: wŭlf, IPA: /wʌlf/ (obsolete)
• 韻: -ʊlf

名詞

wolf (plural wolves)

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

   Synonym: grey wolf

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

     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.

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

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

     “ […] 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.”

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

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

9. A willying machine, to cleanse wool or willow.
   • 1872, Johann Rudolph von Wagner, A handbook of Chemical Technology:

     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

同意語

• loafer, lobo, lofer, loper, lover (Southwestern US dialects)

上位語

• (large wild canid): Canis lupus, canid

下位語

• (large wild canid): she-wolf, wolfess

等位語

• (large wild canid): dingo, dog (members of Canis lupus not called wolf); coyote, jackal, fox (other canids)

派生語

派生した語

• → Ido: volfo (also from German)
• → Marshallese: oļip

参照

• “wolf”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

動詞

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

1. (transitive) To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.
   • 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 150:

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

   • 1987, James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia:

     After a wolfed burger dinner, I called the night number at Administrative Vice and inquired about known lesbian gathering places.

   • 2013, Neil Martin, Collected Stories of the Sea:

     Vicars seated himself and began wolfing a sandwich.

2. (intransitive, slang) To make amorous advances to many women; to hit on women; to cruise for sex.
   • 1949, Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm:

     [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.’

3. (intransitive) To hunt for wolves.

別の表記

• wolve (rare)

同意語

• (devour, gobble): gulp down, wolf down

参照

• “wolf”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Further reading

• wolf on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• flow, fowl

語源

From 古期英語 wulf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos.

発音

• IPA: /wulf/

名詞

wolf (plural wolves, diminutive wolfy, wolfie)

1. (countable) wolf (Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily)
2. (figurative) terrifying person

派生した語

• English: wolf
  • → Ido: volfo (also from German)
  • → Marshallese: oļip
• Middle Scots: wolf, woulf
  • Scots: wouf, oof, ouf, woof