Meaning of wolf dog | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A dog trained to hunt wolves.
2. A hybrid between a wolf and a dog.

Equivalents

Examples

“One grisly old wolf-dog alone, with the liberty of an indulged favourite, had planted himself close⟳ by the chair of state, and occasionally ventured to solicit notice⟳ by putting his large hairy head upon his master’s knee, or pushing his nose into his hand.”

“Bayan was a dog, a tall gray wolf-dog. He could jump⟳ over the table with a single bound.”

“The wolfdog sprawls on his back, wriggling obscenely with begging paws, his long black tongue lolling out.”

“At the man’s heels trotted a dog, a big native husky, the proper wolf-dog, grey-coated and without any visible or temperamental difference from its brother, the wild wolf.”

“That night the starved wolf dogs gorged themselves till they could not rise⟳ from the snow⟳.”

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