wolf-child

American  

[woolf-chahyld] / ˈwʊlfˌtʃaɪld /

noun

wolf-children plural

1. a child who is thought to have been suckled or nurtured by wolves.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• wolf-children
  plural

Etymology

Origin of wolf-child

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

wolf-child wolf-children

I think the expression I used in the book is a wolf-child brought up in the wilderness without any culture around it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2016

The story of another wolf-child is even more wonderful than the above.

From Harper's Young People, August 3, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

An interesting case of a wolf-child was reported many years ago in Chambers' Journal.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

The wolf-child has little except his outward form to show that it is a human being with a soul.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

A jemidar told me that when he was a lad he remembered going, with others, to see a wolf-child which had been netted.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

Secretly the missionary put the wolf-children, females aged about two and eight, in his orphanage.

From Time Magazine Archive

And, owing to the introduction into Portugal of the Book in which this commandment is to be found, wolf-children have become scarcer, and the people wiser.

From Tales from the Lands of Nuts and Grapes Spanish and Portuguese Folklore by Various

Most of the stories of wolf-children come from India.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

We seem to get some insight to this question in the investigation of so called cases of "wolf-children."

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)