wolfed
/wʊlft/
wolfed is the simple past and past participle of wolf.
Meaning of wolf
Verb
wolf (third-person singular simple present wolfs, present participle wolfing, simple past and past participle wolfed)
- To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.
- "Here's these legal ferrets has got our Puddin' in their clutches, and here's us, spellbound with anguish, watchin' them wolfin' it."1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 150
- To make amorous advances to many women; to hit on women; to cruise for sex.
- [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...1949, Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm
- To hunt for wolves.
Phrases with wolfed
Questions about wolfed
- What is wolfed the simple past and past participle of?
- Wolfed is the simple past and past participle of wolf.
- How do you pronounce wolfed?
- Wolfed is pronounced /wʊlft/.
Words near wolfed in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: wolfed (page history and authors); wolf (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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