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- noun Any fictional evil
wolf that appears infairy tales orfables , is typicallysentient , able tospeak ,malicious ,anthropophagous and serves as theantagonist in a plot that teachesprecaution .
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Examples
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But when we're at home, it's all Andy Nelson's except for the occasional trip to Big Bad Wolf, which is pretty great.
Archive 2009-09-01 Kit Pollard 2009
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But when we're at home, it's all Andy Nelson's except for the occasional trip to Big Bad Wolf, which is pretty great.
Entertaining Friday: Fall=Pigskin Kit Pollard 2009
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White is now a counsellor living in the city and the Big Bad Wolf is a detective.
ABC will be telling us some FABLES | Obsessed With Film 2008
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That's fine, except that he comes off sounding like the Big Bad Wolf.
Clay Farris Naff: God Is Still Speaking -- And Boy Is He Grumpy! Clay Farris Naff 2011
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That's fine, except that he comes off sounding like the Big Bad Wolf.
Clay Farris Naff: God Is Still Speaking -- And Boy Is He Grumpy! Clay Farris Naff 2011
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Flick star Amanda Seyfried is in the audience and Seabiscuit sits down next to her while she looks at him like he's the Big Bad Wolf.
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The vitriol associated with this carnivore in the West makes me wonder whether the story of "Little Red Riding Hood" is so ingrained in our collective unconscious that we can't get past the image of the Big Bad Wolf.
M. Sanjayan: Who's Afraid for/of the Big Bad Wolf? M. Sanjayan 2011
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The vitriol associated with this carnivore in the West makes me wonder whether the story of "Little Red Riding Hood" is so ingrained in our collective unconscious that we can't get past the image of the Big Bad Wolf.
M. Sanjayan: Who's Afraid for/of the Big Bad Wolf? M. Sanjayan 2011
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Nah, we get a classy operator, Irma noted, happy to back me up with the Big Bad Wolf.
Silver Zombie Carole Nelson Douglas 2010
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I picked up a book by a new author yesterday…Dark & Deadly by Jeanne Adam (romantic suspense) as well as a copy of Big Bad Wolf by Christine Warren (paranormal romance).
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