lofer

"lofer," one of the giant buffalo wolves of Buckskin; and if I would watch the carcass in the mornings and evenings, I would "shore as hell get a plunk at him."

The Last of the Plainsmen Zane Grey 1905

Here I bin wateing ½ an our he said, yet when some lazy lofer of a woman who has been reading a novvle or a sleep all after noon pfhones you to rush her up some dog meet in youre Autto with gass 36 cts.

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 Various

The former, according to the Standard Dictionary, is derived from the German laufen; another authority says that it originated in a German mispronunciation of lover, i. e., as lofer.

Chapter 3. The Period of Growth. 4. Loan-Words and Non-English Influences Henry Louis 1921

"That's a big gray wolf -- a timber-wolf, or lofer, as he's sometimes called," replied Dale.

The Man of the Forest 1919

The lofer prefers young meat and as a rule will cut down a yearling colt, or dine on warm veal, eschewing cold flesh and feeding only once from every kill -- the lobo being the Lucullus of beasts of prey -- but this prowler had either found scanty fare in a long journey across the mountains or else he wished to kill now for pure deviltry and not from hunger.

Alcatraz Max Brand 1918

The lofer wolf lay with a smear of red across one side of his head.

Alcatraz Max Brand 1918

Alcatraz did not know it, but it made him shudder; before long he was to recognize the call of the lofer wolf, that grey ghost which runs murdering through the mountains.

Alcatraz Max Brand 1918

The best fighting pair of coyotes that ever stepped wouldn't have no chance against a lofer wolf, but no lofer wolf could stand off a dozen or so of the little devils.

Ronicky Doone Max Brand 1918

What was the whisper and burn of a rope, what was even the hum of a bullet compared with the tearing teeth of the lofer wolf?

Alcatraz Max Brand 1918

Being nearer to the river than to the cañon wall it was in the latter direction that the stallion found the wider free space and towards it, accordingly, he directed his flight, running as he had only run when the lofer wolf dogged his heels.

Alcatraz Max Brand 1918