Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to wolf
Participle: wolfed
Gerund: wolfing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | wolf |
| you | wolf |
| he;she;it | wolfs |
| we | wolf |
| you | wolf |
| they | wolf |
Perfect
| I | have wolfed |
| you | have wolfed |
| he;she;it | has wolfed |
| we | have wolfed |
| you | have wolfed |
| they | have wolfed |
Past
| I | wolfed |
| you | wolfed |
| he;she;it | wolfed |
| we | wolfed |
| you | wolfed |
| they | wolfed |
Pluperfect
| I | had wolfed |
| you | had wolfed |
| he;she;it | had wolfed |
| we | had wolfed |
| you | had wolfed |
| they | had wolfed |
Future
| I | will wolf |
| you | will wolf |
| he;she;it | will wolf |
| we | will wolf |
| you | will wolf |
| they | will wolf |
Future Perfect
| I | will have wolfed |
| you | will have wolfed |
| he;she;it | will have wolfed |
| we | will have wolfed |
| you | will have wolfed |
| they | will have wolfed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | wolf |
| you | wolf |
| he;she;it | wolf |
| we | wolf |
| you | wolf |
| they | wolf |
Perfect
| I | have wolfed |
| you | have wolfed |
| he;she;it | have wolfed |
| we | have wolfed |
| you | have wolfed |
| they | have wolfed |
Imperfect
| I | wolfed |
| you | wolfed |
| he;she;it | wolfed |
| we | wolfed |
| you | wolfed |
| they | wolfed |
Pluperfect
| I | had wolfed |
| you | had wolfed |
| he;she;it | had wolfed |
| we | had wolfed |
| you | had wolfed |
| they | had wolfed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would wolf |
| you | would wolf |
| he;she;it | would wolf |
| we | would wolf |
| you | would wolf |
| they | would wolf |
Perfect
| I | would have wolfed |
| you | would have wolfed |
| he;she;it | would have wolfed |
| we | would have wolfed |
| you | would have wolfed |
| they | would have wolfed |
Imperative
| you | wolf |
| we | Let's wolf |
| you | wolf |
Verbs conjugated like 'wolf'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'wolf'
golf,
rolf,
wol,
woll,
woof,
boff,
bold,
bolk,
boll,
boln,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *wl̥kʷós?
3. Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos
4. Proto-Germanic *wulfaz
5. Proto-West Germanic *wulf
6. Old English wulf
7. Middle English wolf
8. English wolf
9. Inherited from Middle English wolf, from Old English wulf, ƿulf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos. Doublet of lobo and lupus.
10. Cognates
11. Cognate with Scots wouf, North Frisian wulew, Saterland Frisian and German Low German Wulf, West Frisian, Alemannic German, and Dutch wolf, Bavarian bolf, bölf, Woif, Cimbrian and Mòcheno bolf, German Wolf, Luxembourgish Wollef, Vilamovian wuf, Yiddish וואָלף (volf), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk ulv, Faroese úlvur, Icelandic úlfur, Swedish ulf, ulv, Gothic 𐍅𐌿𐌻𐍆𐍃 (wulfs); also Irish and Scottish Gaelic olc (“bad, evil”), Lepontic 𐌖𐌋𐌊𐌏𐌔 (ulkos), Manx olk (“bad”), Sanskrit वृक (vṛ́ka), Persian گرگ (gorg), Latgalian vylks, Latvian vìlks, Lithuanian vilkas, Belarusian воўк (vowk), Bulgarian вълк (vălk), Czech and Slovak vlk, Macedonian and Russian волк (volk), Polish wilk, Serbo-Croatian вук, vuk, Slovene volk, Ukrainian вовк (vovk), Albanian ujk, ulk, Latin lupus, Greek λύκος (lýkos), Hittite 𒉿𒀠𒆪𒉿𒀸, Lydian 𐤥𐤠𐤩𐤥𐤤 (walwe, “lion”), Tocharian B walkwe.
Sample Sentences
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"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:]
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After a wolfed burger dinner, I called the night number at Administrative Vice and inquired about known lesbian gathering places. [1987, James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia:]
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Vicars seated himself and began wolfing a sandwich. [2013, Neil Martin, Collected Stories of the Sea:]
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[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 or two, I been around.’ [1949, Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm:]