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adjective ˈluːpʌɪnˈluˌpaɪn Of, like, or relating to a wolf or wolves. Example sentencesExamples - The latter was fiercely jealous, and if Parsons showed obvious affection toward someone, Patsy howled as though she were calling upon all her lupine ancestors to come forth and carry off the intruder.
- Critics have railed against bouts of apparent disingenuousness, self-absorption and the singer's lupine cries of a last chapter.
- When a vampire bites a werewolf, the vampire and wolf will die, because lupine blood is undrinkable, and the werewolf has a nasty reaction to the vampire's fangs.
- It is striking to reflect upon how overwhelmingly male the cast is: every character in the text, excluding the husband in his lupine form and the wife, is a man.
- In the Scottish Highlands, environmental campaigners and landowners wrangled over the possibility of reintroducing wolves to a landscape devoid of lupine presence since the 1700s.
- His name is Nick Dickory, and he has lupine features.
- When she was in lupine form, she was, unsurprisingly, a black wolf, and not a very big one really, but tense and coiled as a well-oiled metal spring, and twice as powerful as any.
- The girls get their costumes ripped off by the lupine guy in the white jacket and ripped jeans.
- Charging a measly 20 bucks, Canada's favourite lupine hippie rocked a sold-out audience at das Kool Haus for pretty close to an hour and 45 minutes.
- Ogre emerged sporting a large lupine mask, flanked by Key on a synth riser, a live drummer and a guitarist wielding a double-necked axe straight out of a Thor video.
- The young doctor was crouching in the middle of the floor staring at the shattered remains of a glass vial, her lupine tail lashing.
- The closest I can come to describing his psychosis is that Peter believes that he is a werewolf, without any of the lupine transformation normally associated with that legend.
- He scowled at the amount of blood decorating the floor in front of the wolf and then roughly grabbed the back of the lupine captain's head.
- Arranged in concentric circles, the houses of The Den were well-distanced from each other, perhaps owing to the werewolves' lupine need for space to run around in.
- Two young women howl at the moon in this likeable dark comedy about getting in touch with your lupine side.
- With media attention hitting fever pitch, a strangely lupine man called Wolf decides to take up the hunt, interrupting Dusty's incompetent press conference.
- They argued that the lupine fantasy could be seen as a fundamental challenge to Western notions of subjectivity.
- Timis, the alpha bitch in her pack, was a savvy survivor, and she opened his eyes to the range of lupine resourcefulness in Romania.
- The Wolf spent his downtime in lupine form, as constantly transforming back and forth gave him a hangover.
Origin Mid 17th century: from Latin lupinus, from lupus 'wolf'. wolf from Old English: The Indo-European root of wolf also gave rise to Greek lukos and Latin lupus, the source of lupine (mid 17th century), ‘like a wolf’. The Greek word gave us lycanthropy (mid 16th century), the mythical transformation of a person into a wolf or werewolf (Old English): the were- part of werewolf is probably from wer, the Old English word for ‘man’ or ‘person’, just as the second half of the Greek comes from anthropos ‘man’ (see world). The story of the shepherd boy who thought it would be funny to cause a panic by falsely crying ‘wolf!’ is one of the fables of Aesop, the Greek storyteller of the 6th century bc. To keep the wolf from the door is to have enough money to avoid starvation: the phrase has been used since the 15th century. To throw someone to the wolves, or leave them to be roughly treated, is surprisingly recent though, being recorded only from the 1920s. The image here is of travellers on a sledge who are set upon by a pack of wolves, and decide to throw out one of their number to lighten the load and allow themselves to make their escape. A wolf in sheep's clothing is a person or thing that appears friendly or harmless but is really hostile. This comes from the Sermon on the Mount, as recounted in the Gospel of Matthew, when Jesus says: ‘Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's cloth, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.’
nounˈlupɪnˈlo͞opin A plant of the pea family with deeply divided leaves and tall colorful tapering spikes of flowers. Genus Lupinus, family Leguminosae: several species, in particular the popular cultivar Russell lupine
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin lupinus. adjectiveˈlo͞oˌpīnˈluˌpaɪn Of, like, or relating to a wolf or wolves. Example sentencesExamples - When a vampire bites a werewolf, the vampire and wolf will die, because lupine blood is undrinkable, and the werewolf has a nasty reaction to the vampire's fangs.
- Charging a measly 20 bucks, Canada's favourite lupine hippie rocked a sold-out audience at das Kool Haus for pretty close to an hour and 45 minutes.
- He scowled at the amount of blood decorating the floor in front of the wolf and then roughly grabbed the back of the lupine captain's head.
- In the Scottish Highlands, environmental campaigners and landowners wrangled over the possibility of reintroducing wolves to a landscape devoid of lupine presence since the 1700s.
- Two young women howl at the moon in this likeable dark comedy about getting in touch with your lupine side.
- Arranged in concentric circles, the houses of The Den were well-distanced from each other, perhaps owing to the werewolves' lupine need for space to run around in.
- With media attention hitting fever pitch, a strangely lupine man called Wolf decides to take up the hunt, interrupting Dusty's incompetent press conference.
- They argued that the lupine fantasy could be seen as a fundamental challenge to Western notions of subjectivity.
- His name is Nick Dickory, and he has lupine features.
- The closest I can come to describing his psychosis is that Peter believes that he is a werewolf, without any of the lupine transformation normally associated with that legend.
- The Wolf spent his downtime in lupine form, as constantly transforming back and forth gave him a hangover.
- When she was in lupine form, she was, unsurprisingly, a black wolf, and not a very big one really, but tense and coiled as a well-oiled metal spring, and twice as powerful as any.
- Ogre emerged sporting a large lupine mask, flanked by Key on a synth riser, a live drummer and a guitarist wielding a double-necked axe straight out of a Thor video.
- Timis, the alpha bitch in her pack, was a savvy survivor, and she opened his eyes to the range of lupine resourcefulness in Romania.
- The latter was fiercely jealous, and if Parsons showed obvious affection toward someone, Patsy howled as though she were calling upon all her lupine ancestors to come forth and carry off the intruder.
- The young doctor was crouching in the middle of the floor staring at the shattered remains of a glass vial, her lupine tail lashing.
- Critics have railed against bouts of apparent disingenuousness, self-absorption and the singer's lupine cries of a last chapter.
- The girls get their costumes ripped off by the lupine guy in the white jacket and ripped jeans.
- It is striking to reflect upon how overwhelmingly male the cast is: every character in the text, excluding the husband in his lupine form and the wife, is a man.
Origin Mid 17th century: from Latin lupinus, from lupus ‘wolf’. |