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lobo

noun
/ˈləʊbəʊ/

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish lobo (“wolf”). Doublet of lupus and wolf.

  1. borrowed from lobo — “wolf”

Definitions

  1. A wolf.

    • We used to pay a $20.00 bounty a head on lobos for a good many years, but stopped it because it was abused. Lobo scalps from Arizona, [...]
    • "That may be so," Donnelly allowed, "but there desperate men around these parts, especially wolfers who have been collecting bounties for lobo scalps since the big snows of the Hard Winter."

  2. A surname.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for lobo. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA