Shark vs. Wolf

A scaleless, predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.

Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion.

A sleazy and amoral lawyer; an ambulance chaser.

(informal) A relentless and resolute person or group, especially in business.

(informal) A very good poker or pool player. Compare fish (a bad poker player).

A person who feigns ineptitude to win money from others.

(rare) To fish for sharks.

(obsolete) To steal or obtain through fraud.

To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.

To live by shifts and stratagems.

(obsolete) To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.

Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas.

A rapacious, artful person; a sharper.

Trickery; fraud; petty rapine; as, to live upon the shark.

To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.

To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.

Example: ‘Neither sharks for a cup or a reckoning.’;

To live by shifts and stratagems.

any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales

a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest

a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways;

Example: ‘a card shark’;

play the shark; act with trickery

hunt 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.

The gray wolf, specifically all subspecies of the gray wolf (Canis lupus) that are not dingoes or dogs.

A man who makes amorous advances to many women.

(music) A wolf tone or wolf note.

One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.

Example: ‘the bee wolf’;

(figurative) Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.

Example: ‘They toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.’;

A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.

(obsolete) An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.

A willying machine.

(transitive) To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.

To make amorous advances to many women; to hit on women; to cruise for sex.

(intransitive) To hunt for wolves.

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.

One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvæ of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf.

Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.

A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.

An eating ulcer or sore. Cf. Lupus.

Example: ‘If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf into thy side.’;

The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament.

A willying machine.

any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs

Austrian composer (1860-1903)

German classical scholar who claimed that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed by several authors (1759-1824)

a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women

a cruelly rapacious person

eat hastily;

Example: ‘The teenager wolfed down the pizza’;

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.