wolflike
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]wolflike (comparative more wolflike, superlative most wolflike)
- Wolfish (all senses); lupine.
- 1903 July, Jack London, “The Law of Club and Fang”, in The Call of the Wild, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 62:
- And when, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolflike, it was his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries through him.