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wolfer en · NOUN

Etymology

From wolf (verb) + -er.

Meanings

1. One who devours food greedily; one who wolfs down food.
   • If your dog's a wolfer, here's a tip to slow him down: choose a couple of smooth stones (make sure they are too big for your dog to swallow), wash them, and put them in your dog's dish with his food. 2011, Marty Becker, Your Dog: The Owner's Manual:
   • I have observed that there are only two types of eaters in this world - pickers and wolfers. 1987, Kerry Cue, Hang On To Your Horses Doovers, page 13:
2. A wolf-hunter, especially one who hunts for bounty.
   • Strychnine was introduced into the United States about 1847 and became the principal pesticide of the professional wolfer in eradication campaigns between 1860 and 1885. 1992, Craig A. Ramey, Edward W. Schafer, Kathleen A. Fagerstone, “Back to the future for APHIS's vertebrate pesticides”, in Proceedings of the Vertebrate Pest Conference, volume 15:
   • If a wolfer locates a den full of small wolves, he "flags" it by putting a handkerchief on a stick and planting that in the mouth of the burrow. No wolf will pass the man scent while the trapper goes for tools to dig out the litter. 1939, Arthur Hawthorne Carhart, “World Champion Wolfer”, in Outdoor Life, volume 84, number 3:
   • Wolf pelts were worth plenty of money in the late nineteenth century, and the wolfers had an easy way of killing their prey. 2012, Peter Edwards, Michel Auger, The Encyclopedia of Canadian Organized Crime:
3. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of wolver.
   alt of wolver

Forms

Deriveds

lone wolfer