wolverine
See also: Wolverine
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EnglishEdit
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EtymologyEdit
1619; alteration of earlier wolvering (1574), diminutive of wolver (“ravenous or savage animal; person who behaves like a wolf”) (1593),[1] ultimately from wolf.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
wolverine (plural wolverines)
- A solitary, fierce mammal of the Mustelidae family, Gulo gulo.
- 1920, Peter B. Kyne, The Understanding Heart, Chapter IV
- “Wish I'd been more polite to that girl,” the sheriff remarked regretfully. “ I ain't had a bite to eat since four o'clock this morning, and I'm hungry as a wolverine. … I know she'd have give me another drink of that old moonshine she has.”
- 1920, Peter B. Kyne, The Understanding Heart, Chapter IV
SynonymsEdit
- (animal): Gulo gulo, carcajou, skunk bear, glutton, quickhatch
TranslationsEdit
Gulo gulo
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ReferencesEdit
- ^ Robert K. Barnhart, ed., Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Edinburgh: Chambers, 2008), 1242.
See alsoEdit
- wolverine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Gulo gulo on Wikispecies.Wikispecies