scoff vs wolf

scoff

verb
  • To eat. 

  • To jeer; to laugh with contempt and derision. 

  • To eat food quickly. 

  • To mock; to treat with scorn. 

noun
  • A derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach. 

  • The act of eating. 

  • An object of scorn, mockery, or derision. 

  • Food. 

wolf

verb
  • To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously. 

  • To make amorous advances to many women; to hit on women; to cruise for sex. 

  • To hunt for wolves. 

noun
  • Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation. 

  • A wolf spider. 

  • One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths. 

  • A willying machine, to cleanse wool or willow. 

  • A man who makes amorous advances to many women. 

  • A wolf tone or wolf note. 

  • Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily. 

  • A white worm which infests granaries, the larva of Nemapogon granella, a tineid moth. 

  • Any of several related canines that resemble Canis lupus in appearance, especially those of the genus Canis. 

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