Shark vs. Wolf
Sharknoun
A scaleless, predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.
Wolfnoun
The gray wolf, specifically all subspecies of the gray wolf (Canis lupus) that are not dingoes or dogs.
Sharknoun
Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion.
Wolfnoun
A man who makes amorous advances to many women.
Sharknoun
A sleazy and amoral lawyer; an ambulance chaser.
Wolfnoun
(music) A wolf tone or wolf note.
Sharknoun
(informal) A relentless and resolute person or group, especially in business.
Wolfnoun
One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.
‘the bee wolf’;
Sharknoun
(informal) A very good poker or pool player. Compare fish (a bad poker player).
Wolfnoun
(figurative) Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.
‘They toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.’;
Sharknoun
A person who feigns ineptitude to win money from others.
Wolfnoun
A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.
Sharkverb
(rare) To fish for sharks.
Wolfnoun
(obsolete) An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.
Sharkverb
(obsolete) To steal or obtain through fraud.
Wolfnoun
A willying machine.
Sharkverb
To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
Wolfverb
(transitive) To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.
Sharkverb
To live by shifts and stratagems.
Wolfverb
To make amorous advances to many women; to hit on women; to cruise for sex.
Sharkverb
(obsolete) To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.
Wolfverb
(intransitive) To hunt for wolves.
Sharknoun
Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas.
Wolfnoun
Any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus Canis and closely allied to the common dog. The best-known and most destructive species are the European wolf (Canis lupus), the American gray, or timber, wolf (Canis occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man.
Sharknoun
A rapacious, artful person; a sharper.
Wolfnoun
One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvæ of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf.
Sharknoun
Trickery; fraud; petty rapine; as, to live upon the shark.
Wolfnoun
Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.
Sharkverb
To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.
Wolfnoun
A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.
Sharkverb
To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
‘Neither sharks for a cup or a reckoning.’;
Wolfnoun
An eating ulcer or sore. Cf. Lupus.
‘If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf into thy side.’;
Sharkverb
To live by shifts and stratagems.
Wolfnoun
The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament.
Sharknoun
any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales
Wolfnoun
A willying machine.
Sharknoun
a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest
Wolfnoun
any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs
Sharknoun
a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways;
‘a card shark’;
Wolfnoun
Austrian composer (1860-1903)
Sharkverb
play the shark; act with trickery
Wolfnoun
German classical scholar who claimed that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed by several authors (1759-1824)
Sharkverb
hunt shark
Wolfnoun
a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women
Shark
Sharks are a group of elasmobranch fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head. Modern sharks are classified within the clade Selachimorpha (or Selachii) and are the sister group to the rays.
Wolfnoun
a cruelly rapacious person
Wolfverb
eat hastily;
‘The teenager wolfed down the pizza’;
Wolf
The wolf (Canis lupus), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America. More than thirty subspecies of Canis lupus have been recognized, and gray wolves, as colloquially understood, comprise non-domestic/feral subspecies.
