Meaning of wolf-child | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A human child that has been raised by wolves from infancy.
2. A being that is part wolf, part child.
3. A baby or young wolf.
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Equivalents

Examples

“Mr. Neilson also adds that a jemidar told him that when he was a lad he remembered going with others to see a wolf-child which had been netted.”

“Odin watched the wolf-child grow with foreboding, for in his dreams the wolf had been there at the end of everything[.]”

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