wolfer
/wˈʊlfɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.39 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname.
noun
One who devours food greedily; one who wolfs down food.
noun
A wolf-hunter, especially one who hunts for bounty.
noun
Alternative form of wolver.
Example Sentences
- "I have observed that there are only two types of eaters in this world - pickers and wolfers."
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
- "Wolf pelts were worth plenty of money in the late nineteenth century, and the wolfers had an easy way of killing their prey."