Search for crossword answers and clues

Answer for the clue "Weaselly type of animal lover turning heads in Bordeaux perhaps ", 9 letters:
wolverine

Alternative clues for the word wolverine

Word definitions for wolverine in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Glutton \Glut"ton\, n. [OE. glotoun, glotun, F. glouton, fr. L. gluto, glutto. See Glut .] One who eats voraciously, or to excess; a gormandizer. Fig.: One who gluts himself. Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy. --Granville. (Zo["o]l.) A carnivorous mammal ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Wolverine was a number of Marvel Comics comic book series starring the X-Men member Wolverine . As of April 2013, 323 issues and 11 annuals have been published. It was the original flagship title created for the character.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A solitary, fierce mammal of the Mustelidae family, ''Gulo gulo''. 2 # A male wolverine, (a female wolverine being called an angeline).

Usage examples of wolverine.

She wrapped the sleeping fur around her and, after a search of the carrying baskets revealed she had forgotten to bring her wolverine hood, pulled an end over her head and huddled over the black wet remains of a fire.

Then she looked at the pile of meat, the mud-encrusted horsehide, the dead wolverine, and the dead lynx.

Whitman that to judge from the size of the Wolverine force and the type and number of weapons purchased for it, Becker must have far outspent the budget he had agreed to for the project at its outset.

The large carnivores played host with their leavings to a great variety of secondary carnivores and scavengers, both four-legged and flying: foxes, hyenas, brown bears, civets, small steppe cats, wolverines, weasels, ravens, kites, hawks, and many more.

CANADA Although we hardly ever think about it except when the TV weather person is showing us a cold air mass, Canada is actually a major country, with an area of more than 169 billion hectometers in longitude, and a bustling population of more than 27 million, if you include members of the wolverine family.

Wolverines were intrepid, scrappy scavengers, fierce enough to drive away predators larger than themselves from their kills, fearless enough to steal drying meat or anything portable they could carry off, and wily enough to break into storage caches.

The wolverine was only the first of the smaller predators and scavengers to fall to her sling.

I remember being shocked at the sloth and moral degeneracy of the Nixon press corps during the 1972 presidential campaign -- but they were like a pack of wolverines on speed compared to the relatively elite sportswriters who showed up in Houston to cover the Super Bowl.

Not only did large cats or wolf packs or hyenas sometimes snatch an animal from the hunters, but skulking hyenas or sneaky wolverines were always around when meat was drying, or they were trying to break into caches.

Massive Retaliation: a brutal attack with guns, bombs, pepper-foggers, wolverines and all other weapons deemed necessary to restore the civic peace.

Coleman played his sax, afraid to burglarize, afraid to visit his wolverine friends.

Joredco is the only lab in Los Angeles that fashions animal dentures, and we’ve never done them for a wolverine.

It suddenly struck Jon-Tom that having disposed of the perambulator and its perturbations, as well as having cured its captor, they now had to decide how to deal with an angry, intelligent, six-foot-tall wolverine with, so to speak, an ax to grind.

Some of the armored vehicles had been destroyed not from a nuclear blast but by regular antitank or RPG rounds or by the Wolverine cruise missile's Sensor-Fuzed Weapon rounds blowing through the weaker upper hull.

But the FlightHawks were able to determine from the type of radar detected what kind of air defense system it was, and if it had a remote launcher setup it would listen for the data transmission between the radar unit and the missile launch unit in a surface-to-air missile battery, compute the location of the launcher, and pass its location to the Wolverine missiles.