Dictionary

wolf-child en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A human child that has been raised by wolves from infancy.
   • 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. 1898 January 14, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, Philadelphia, page 121:
2. A being that is part wolf, part child.
   • Odin watched the wolf-child grow with foreboding, for in his dreams the wolf had been there at the end of everything[.] 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 78:
3. (literary) A baby or young wolf.

Forms

Hypernyms

wild child · feral child

Relateds

wolf child

Synonyms

wolf cub · wolf whelp · wolfling · wolfkin

Translations (2)

pt criança-lobo (human child raised by wolves) · pl ludzkie szczenię (human child raised by wolves)

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