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plural wolverines
A solitary, fierce mammal of the Mustelidae family, Gulo gulo. quotations examples
“Wish I'd been more polite to that girl,” the sheriff remarked regretfully. “ I ain't had a bite to eat since four o'clock this morning, and I'm hungry as a wolverine. … I know she'd have give me another drink of that old moonshine she has.”
1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter IV, in The Understanding Heart