wolf
要点オオカミ
意味
- オオカミ
- オオカミの毛皮
- (オオカミのようにひどく)どん欲な人,残忍な人
- 女たらし,色魔
- (オオカミのように)…をがつがつ食う,むさぼり食う《+down+名,+名+down》
例文
What's the difference between a dog and a wolf?
犬と狼って何が違うの？
Critics are just crying wolf about protectionism.
評論家たちは、保護貿易主義について人騒がせのうそを言っています。
You'll choke if you wolf your food down like that.
そんなに急いで食べると喉に詰まるよ。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
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. Cognates 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 (vṛ́k…