she-wolf
Americannoun
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a female wolf.
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a predatory woman.
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"She's so inspiring to women," says one fan, wearing furry she-wolf ears, shortly before the show.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2025
The other two are named Romulus and Remus, after the mythical founders of Rome said to have been suckled by a she-wolf as infants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2025
In one meme, a boar replaces the she-wolf who suckled Romulus and Remus, Rome’s mythical forefathers.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 17, 2022
She, as a mother would, defended them as would a she-wolf, albeit a confused and guilty one.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 20, 2013
All his life Tyrion had prided himself on his cunning, the only gift the gods had seen fit to give him, and yet this seven-times-damned she-wolf Catelyn Stark had outwitted him at every turn.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
There is a self-conscious playfulness to a movement that inspires women to identify with she-wolves constructed from discarded bones or brand themselves witches on social media despite an illiteracy with spellcraft.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2019
These tend to be named after animals: snails, porcupines, she-wolves.
From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2018
However, while Kress’s account of the she-wolves cannot be corroborated, his broadsheet offers some tantalizing suggestions about the perception and creation of early modern werewolves.
From Time ● May 27, 2015
If the story of Stubbe Peter is somewhat dubious, the tale of the Jülich she-wolves borders on absurd.
From Time ● May 27, 2015
This is a most masterly piece of nature; and I venture to pronounce that the man who is uninterested by it must have been born on Caucasus and nursed by she-wolves.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)
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