vrock

English

Etymology

Introduced in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game in the 1970s. Possibly related to Swedish vråk (“buzzard”).

Noun

vrock (plural vrocks)

1. (fantasy) A humanoid demon with the head, claws, and wings of a giant vulture.
   • 2001, Kate Nepveu, “some tough questions?”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet):

     If you play with certain demons (mariliths, vrocks, hezrous, bone devils, nalfeshnees, pit fiends, or water demons), you could eventually get Yeenoghu anywhere, and then he could get you Demo.

   • 2005, Trina L. Talma, River's End, page 28:

     The hag, after seeing her threats had no effect on Liann, left her alone, though usually watched over by the vrock.

Manx

Noun

vrock

1. Lenited form of brock.

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
brock	vrock	mrock
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.