ˈwolfess rare.
Also 5 woluesse, -as.
[f. wolf n. + -ess1.]
1. A she-wolf.
| 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) III. 43 A wolfesse [v.rr. wolvesse, woluas] þat hadde i-lost hir whelpes. 1550 W. Lynne Carion's Cron. 25 b, By chaunce came a wolfesse out of the nexte mountaynes. 1820 W. Tooke tr. Lucian I. 560 note, The wolf lives instinctively solitary..so that even his connection with the wolfess is but of short duration. |
2. A woman who is sexually aggressive; a woman who seeks to seduce men.
| 1945 Bulletin (Philadelphia) 27 Nov. 42/1 A nice girl hasn't got a chance with a wolfess around. 1968 Word Study Dec. 4/2 Wolf suggests the sexually aggressive female as well as the sexually agressive male, though it is often expanded to wolfess when applied to a woman. |