wolf-child

English

Noun

wolf-child (plural wolf-children)

1. A human child that has been raised by wolves from infancy.
   • 1898 January, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, Philadelphia, page 121:

     Mr. Neilson also adds that a jemidar told him that when he was a lad he remembered going with others to see a wolf-child which had been netted.

2. (mythology, fantasy) A being that is part wolf, part child.
   • 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 78:

     Odin watched the wolf-child grow with foreboding, for in his dreams the wolf had been there at the end of everything[.]

3. (literary) A baby or young wolf.

   Synonyms: wolf cub, wolfkin, wolfling, wolf whelp

Translations

baby or young wolf — see wolf cub