The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wilk \Wilk\, n. (Zo["o]l.) See Whelk. [Obs.]
Wiktionary
n. (context zoology English) (obsolete form of whelk English)
Wikipedia
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Wilk is a surname of English origin (a back formation of Wilkin, a short form of William) and, more often, of Polish origin (meaning wolf). It has 35 thousand bearers in Poland and ranks about 60 in the list of the most popular Polish surnames (fifth in Podkarpackie Voivodeship). It is common in many parts of southern Poland, especially among the Lasowiacy ethnic group. In English, variants of the name Wilk include Wilkes, Wilke, Wilks, Wilkin, Wilkins and others. In Polish, its diminutive is surname Wilczek; another popular second name Wilczyński may also derive from it, but also from toponyms with the stem wilk.
The following people bear the surname:
- Adam Wilk (born 1987), American baseball pitcher
- Brad Wilk (born 1968), American musician
- Cezary Wilk (born 1986), Polish footballer
- Chester A. Wilk, American chiropractor
- "General Wilk" (1895-1951), nom de guerre of Aleksander Krzyzanowski
- Gerard Wilk (1944-1995), Polish dancer
- Jakub Wilk (born 1985), Polish footballer
- Kasia Wilk (born 1982), Polish singer
- Maurice Wilk (died 1963), American violinist
- Martin Wilk (1922-2013), Canadian statistician, co-author of the Shapiro–Wilk test
- Max Wilk (1920-2011), American playwright, screenwriter and author
- Michael Wilk (born c. 1952), American songwriter
- Rafał Wilk (born 1974), Polish former speedway rider and Paralympic cyclist
- Scott Wilk (born 1959), American politician
- Selene Vigil-Wilk, American singer and musician
- Vic Wilk (born 1960), American professional golfer
- Wojciech Wilk (born 1972), Polish politician
Fictional characters include:
- Jonathan Wilk, the main character in the film Compulsion (1959), played by Orson Welles
- Patricia Wilk, a character in Scrubs
Wilk is a surname.
Wilk may also refer to:
Usage examples of "wilk".
Most of these stories were written by Wilk in his underwear in a furnished apartment, his typewriter framed by bottles of gin and obscene notes which Wilk would type to himself during incessant blocks, begging him not to let up now.
He has always made the best-of-the-year anthologies, Herovit never, and Wilk has not been gracious about this.
Herovit finishes sullenly and stands with hands on hips, elbows poking the wall, while Wilk surveys the office.
No matter what Wilk says to him, how vituperative his old friend becomes, Herovit always winds up sullen and apologetic.
It stems, he supposes, from a basic sense of inferiority which he will never overcome even though he himself has never found Wilk that convincing a writer.
There must be something he had meant to say to Wilk but now he cannot quite think of it.
Standing before him is a suggestion of the disheveled, frantic Wilk of fifteen years ago who was convinced that everyone was out to get him and knew that he had to Take Measures.
Given time, Herovit guesses that he could draw Wilk aside and quietly explain the situation to him as Wilk followed it intently.
He could tell old Mitch that this thing with Janice was hardly personal, merely her usual resentment of the situation now being tacked onto Wilk, and anyway, this was not a new speech .
As Wilk says, science fiction is definitely coming up in the academic world, and a man with those credentials might be able to actually make a living, to say nothing of getting respect.
One of the responsibilities of the commercial writer was to please the editors and readers, but how can he please them if he is going to sit and think about Wilk being laid?
Old Herovit had been a whirlwind in his younger days, Wilk was saying: seventeen novels in one year, and a record for novel-writing of three days flat.
What did Wilk ever do in his life except to turn out garbage for his part of collaborations, misappropriate funds which should have been split down the middle, and get sultry, alienated Manhattan types to go down on him?
The academic affairs committee moves off into a corner of the room to confer on a suitable statement for the press, and Wilk seems to disappear entirely, leaving Kirk on his own, the single representative of modern science fiction.
Bill Wilk scowled at him for a moment, then swung his head on his nonexistent neck to glare at the Auslanders.