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单词 wolfen
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wolfenn.

Forms: Old English wylfen, Middle English wuluene, wluine, 1500s Scottish wolfyne.
Etymology: Old English wylfen , of which the normal representative would be *wilven ; < wulf wolf n. + -en suffix2. Compare Middle High German wülvinne (German wölfin), Middle Dutch wolvinne (Dutch wolvin), Danish ulvinde, etc.
Obsolete. rare.
A she-wolf.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Canis > canis lupus (wolf) > female
wolfenc1000
wolfessa1387
c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 362 Gif he drinceð wylfene meolc.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 97 Þeo þet is iwent to wulfene igodes echnen. wulfene steuene in his licht earen.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 96 Wummon wrað is wulfene. mon is wulf.
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 573 Leoun or wlf, wluine or bere.
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Trial of Fox l. 902 in Poems (1981) 38 The wodwys, vildcat, and the wild wolfyne.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

wolfenadj.

Etymology: < wolf n. + -en suffix4.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈwolfen.
rare.
Pertaining to a wolf, wolfish.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [adjective] > relating to a wolf
wolvish1565
wolfish1570
wolfen1810
1810 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 29 320 To wreathe anew the bonds of love, Which strife with wolfen tooth No more shall gnaw in twain.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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