were wolf

English

Noun

were wolf (plural were wolves)

  1. (rare) Alternative form of werewolf
    • 1830, The Polar star of Entertainment and Popular Science:
      All these tortures he resisted till the hangman gave him an intoxicating draught, and under its influence he confessed that he was a were wolf after all.
    • 1857, Alexandre Dumas, The Wolf Leader:
      "Ah! Madame!" they said, "what is the use, what can we do against a were wolf?"
    • 2009, Ferran Alexandri, The Big Book Of Fantastic Creatures, →ISBN, page 19:
      They say that a person turns into a were wolf when he is bitten by another lycanthrope, or even by an ordinary wolf.
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