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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