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Is there a word for this?
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Is there a word for this? Yep: feral. Edit: confess I'm wondering if there is someone in particular who sparked this question...
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I don't think 'feral' is it. Looking for something more specific to wolves. It was a question raised on another board and I thought just maybe tsuwm would deign to make an appearance and have the word right on the tip of his pen.
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I can only grab at phrases like wolverine fostering - do you know for sure there is one dedicated word, Fong? Unless it's romulan... ;)
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d'oh: wolf-children
"Stories of feral children, as opposed to wolf children, have gained wider acceptance." - Cecil/Straight Dope
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I'm not sure, but I think the word being looked for is for the process rather than the recipients. It's in the Vocabula Forum and the asker is sure that there's a 'hip' root involved, whatever *that means, but I didn't want to mention that for fear of prejudicing the jury. I wish I had a dollar for every time I've known, e.g., "All I remember is it starts with an 'S' … Right! Carpathians!"
Edit: Double D'oh! It's not a 'hip' root, it's a 'lup' root. Cramped font, yeah, that's it. It was in a cramped font.
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It would make sense if it did. I didn't feel like taking the time, but if you want to you can see if any of the list of words-that-begin-with-lup that Onelook gave me is what you're looking for: http://www.onelook.com/?w=lup*
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Excellent - gives a whole new meaning to the mythology of the birth of Rome!
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