wolf-child noun4 •A human child that has been raised by wolves from infancy.Mr. Neilson also adds that a jemidar told him that when he was a lad he remembered going with others to see a wolf-child which had been netted. — 1898 •A being that is part wolf, part child.Odin watched the wolf-child grow with foreboding, for in his dreams the wolf had been there at the end of everything[.] — 2017 •A German street child, typically an orphan, who lived in East Prussia at the end of World War II. •(literary) A baby or young wolf. formswolf children · wolf-children