wolfer

From wolf (verb) +‎ -er.

wolfer (plural wolfers)

One who devours food greedily; one who wolfs down food.
- 1987, Kerry Cue, Hang On To Your Horses Doovers, page 13:
  I have observed that there are only two types of eaters in this world - pickers and wolfers.
- 2011, Marty Becker, Your Dog: The Owner's Manual:
  If your dog's a wolfer, here's a tip to slow him down: choose a couple of smooth stones (make sure they are too big for your dog to swallow), wash them, and put them in your dog's dish with his food.
A wolf-hunter, especially one who hunts for bounty.
- 1939, Arthur Hawthorne Carhart, “World Champion Wolfer”, in Outdoor Life, volume 84, number 3:
  If a wolfer locates a den full of small wolves, he "flags" it by putting a handkerchief on a stick and planting that in the mouth of the burrow. No wolf will pass the man scent while the trapper goes for tools to dig out the litter.
- 1992, Craig A. Ramey, Edward W. Schafer, Kathleen A. Fagerstone, “Back to the future for APHIS's vertebrate pesticides”, in Proceedings of the Vertebrate Pest Conference, volume 15:
  Strychnine was introduced into the United States about 1847 and became the principal pesticide of the professional wolfer in eradication campaigns between 1860 and 1885.
Alternative form of wolver.
- 2012, Peter Edwards, Michel Auger, The Encyclopedia of Canadian Organized Crime:
  Wolf pelts were worth plenty of money in the late nineteenth century, and the wolfers had an easy way of killing their prey.

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