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Wolverine   /wˌʊlvərˈin/   Listen
Wolverine

noun
1.
A native or resident of Michigan.  Synonym: Michigander.
2.
Musteline mammal of northern Eurasia.  Synonyms: glutton, Gulo gulo.
3.
Stocky shaggy-coated North American carnivorous mammal.  Synonyms: carcajou, Gulo luscus, skunk bear.



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"Wolverine" Quotes from Famous Books



... collect this tiny cuss, And a golden quid was no more to him than a copper to coves like us. So we sailed away and our hearts were gay as we gazed on the gorgeous scene; And we laughed with glee as we caught the flea of the wolf and the wolverine; Yea, our hearts were light as the parasite of the ermine rat we slew, And the great musk ox, and the silver fox, and the moose and the caribou. And we laughed with zest as the insect pest of the marmot crowned our zeal, And the wary mink and the wily "link", and the walrus and the seal. ...
— Ballads of a Bohemian • Robert W. Service

... most interesting of all knowledge,—the science of being able to talk about the titled people. So my furrier (whose name was Ramsack), having to make robes for peers, and cloaks for their wives and otherwise, knew the great folk, sham or real, as well as he knew a fox or skunk from a wolverine skin. ...
— Lorna Doone - A Romance of Exmoor • R. D. Blackmore



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