wolf
verb/wʊlf/
/wʊlf/
(informal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they wolf | /wʊlf/ /wʊlf/ |
| he / she / it wolfs | /wʊlfs/ /wʊlfs/ |
| past simple wolfed | /wʊlft/ /wʊlft/ |
| past participle wolfed | /wʊlft/ /wʊlft/ |
| -ing form wolfing | /ˈwʊlfɪŋ/ /ˈwʊlfɪŋ/ |
- wolf something (down) to eat food very quickly, especially by putting a lot of it in your mouth at once synonym gobbleTopics Feelingsc2Word OriginOld English wulf, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch wolf and German Wolf, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin lupus and Greek lukos. The verb dates from the mid 19th cent.
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