Sentence:  “Wish I'd been more polite to that girl,” the sheriff remarked regretfully. “ I ain't had a bite to eat since four o'clock this morning, and I'm hungry as a <WSD>wolverine</WSD>. … I know she'd have give me another drink of that old moonshine she has.” 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A solitary, fierce mammal of the Mustelidae family, "Gulo gulo".