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Wolf-month or Wolf-monath

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The Saxon name for January, because “people are wont always in that month to be in more danger of being devoured by wolves than in any other.” (Verstegan.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Woo-tee Dynasty
Woden
Woe to Thee, O Land
Woful
Wokey
Wolf (in music)
Wolf
Wolf
Wolf Men
Wolf-month or Wolf-monath
Wolf’s-bane
Wolves
Wonder
Wonder-worker
Wood
Wood
Wood’s Halfpence
Woodbind
Woodbine
Woodcock (A)