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单词 wolfess
释义 ˈwolfess rare.
Also 5 woluesse, -as.
[f. wolf n. + -ess1.]
1. A she-wolf.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) III. 43 A wolfesse [v.rr. wolvesse, woluas] þat hadde i-lost hir whelpes.1550W. Lynne Carion's Cron. 25 b, By chaunce came a wolfesse out of the nexte mountaynes.1820W. Tooke tr. Lucian I. 560 note, The wolf lives instinctively solitary..so that even his connection with the wolfess is but of short duration.
2. A woman who is sexually aggressive; a woman who seeks to seduce men.
1945Bulletin (Philadelphia) 27 Nov. 42/1 A nice girl hasn't got a chance with a wolfess around.1968Word Study Dec. 4/2 Wolf suggests the sexually aggressive female as well as the sexually agressive male, though it is often expanded to wolfess when applied to a woman.
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