wolve down
verb1
Uncommon Uncommon form of wolf down.
- Holding the basin in one hand, Alitet threw chunks of meat into the jaws of the dogs with the other. They wolved down the meat and waited, their eyes glistening for more.1922, Tikhon Syomushkin, translated by B. Isaacs, Alitet Goes to the Hills, 2nd edition, Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, page 588:
- They were frozen almost solid but I wolved down about two dozen of the chilled fruits before I eased my pangs of hunger.1933 May 29, Alexander MacDonald, “On the Beach at Waikiki”, in Honolulu Star-Bulletin, number 17745 (Evening Bulletin)/volume XL, number 12886 (Hawaiian Star), Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, page eleven:
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- THE popular lunch place is also our favorite dinner resort! For Ellen McCauley’s steak and fried chicken is the best you ever wolved down!1934 July 29, Sue the Shopper, “Thru the Shops with Sue”, in Des Moines Sunday Register, volume 86, number 38, Des Moines, Ia., section eight (Society), page two, column 7:
- To those already aboard we gave dozens and dozens of bananas brought from Tahiti. And how those kids wolved them down! A bite, a gulp and a whole one was gone.1935 March 24, “Scientists Go To Work”, in The Honolulu Advertiser, 79th year, number 17,299, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, page eight, column 4:
- I was wolving down great chunks of Mother Young’s bread, smeared with guava jam, but hardly touched the rather insipid, synthetic “tea.”1935 December 1, Alexander MacDonald, “Pitcairn today: A sequel to Mutiny”, in The Honolulu Advertiser, 80th year, number 17,551, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii:
- An old goat in Wichita, Kan., that for years had eaten everything in sight—and once had given birth to quintuplets—wolved down a mild pack of cigarets the other day, and never recovered.1942 February 16, Gladwin Hill, “Animals Lead Goofy News: Show Odd Eating, Drinking Trends”, in The Billings Gazette, 56th year, number 289, Billings, Mont., page three, column 3: