English Explanatory Dictionary

wolf child

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A German street child, typically an orphan, who lived in East Prussia at the end of World War II.

Word forms

wolf child wolf children

Etymology

Calque of German Wolfskind and Lithuanian vilko vaikas. First attested in the 1990s.

Synonyms

little German

Related words

wolf-child
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