wolfcall

See also: wolf call

English

Noun

wolfcall (plural wolfcalls)

1. Alternative form of wolf call.
   • 1959, Mordecai Richler, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Penguin Books, published 1973, page 71:

     They could not step out of their enclaves and avoid the speeding cars with wolfcall horns.

   • 1989, Cathy Young, Growing Up in Moscow: Memories of a Soviet Girlhood, New York, N.Y.: Ticknor & Fields, →ISBN, page 114:

     We were now walking at the very edge of the water, the tide lapping at our feet, and the four or five guys, with guffaws and wolfcalls, were nearly tripping us up with the bike wheels, jostling us, reaching out to grab and pinch at our breasts and behinds.

   • 1990, Robyn, “Incognito”, in F.M.I.: Female Mimics International, volume 19, number 6 / 56, MAGCORP, The Magazine Corporation of America, California, page 16:

     On one occasion, two carloads of guys pulled up alongside me, offering lifts. When I declined, they drove off uttering wolfcalls.

   • 2003, Toby Cecchini, Cosmopolitan: A Bartender’s Life, New York, N.Y.: Broadway Books, →ISBN, page 3:

     There’s a parking garage and a taxi garage shoulder to shoulder whose shiftless employees litter the sidewalk night and day, vying in multilingual competition for the most salacious wolfcalls toward any women hapless enough to pass down the street.