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Meanings of wolverine in English
Largest land-dwelling species of the family Mustelidae.
Related terms
Russian
шерсть росомахи 
Synonyms
Examples for "glutton"
Examples for "glutton"
1
The parasite pluckily sets to; the idler becomes a glutton for work.
2
Unless you're a glutton for punishment, in which case, have at it.
3
Had I been a professional glutton I would have been in paradise.
4
It is unfit for any girl but such a glutton as Lilla.
5
TRYGAEUS And I also, that you are a glutton and an impostor.
1
New tracks marked the snow and showed where the carcajou had dragged it away.
2
Indignant at the outrage, the old Dog-rib determined to hunt the carcajou and destroy it.
3
He could hunt the bear, the lynx, the carcajou.
4
Otter or carcajou, maybe.
5
We can see the fierce visages of the grizzly bear, of the white buffalo, of the carcajou, of the panther, and the ravenous wolf.
1
The wolverene, or glutton, carries off the palm for cunning from all the other animals.
2
Over there in the timber is the wolverene.
3
The wolves had seen the wolverene as they approached the thicket, and that accounted for their strange behaviour in the pursuit.
4
By this means it freezes as hard as stone, and prevents their common enemy, the wolverene, disturbing them during the winter.
5
As Basil said this, he rose to his feet, and walked down to the bluff where they had shot the wolverene.
Usage of wolverine in English
1
However, here the Great Bear was somewhat thinner, leaner-morelike a wolverine.
2
At last the coat was ready, and the wolverine put it on.
3
The young woman squinted into the wind, pulling her wolverine hood closer.
4
Then he raised his hand, and the wolverine shuffled off, heading north.
5
His wolverine dæmon leaped onto the woodstack beside the door, scattering snow.
6
Or a wolverine, or wildcat, or badger, or ferret, or a hyena!
7
It is a fool's journey-doesthe wolverine walk into an empty trap?
8
Heed lest the wolverine shall scent a human touch upon thy breast!
9
He was about the size of the wolf and was called the wolverine.
10
His black eyes snapped like the eyes of a wolverine in a corner.
11
Perhaps neither wolverine had expected the full fury of the hound.
12
The rock stopped at once, but there came a shriek from the wolverine:
13
This, in some way or other, the cunning wolverine seemed to have discovered.
14
The wolverine retorted that he was sure he had seen the rock walking.
15
Nothing and nobody saw the wolverine leave that lair that was not his.
16
Then the wolverine, whose head was not crushed under the rock, cried out:
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