were wolf
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Noun edit
were wolf (plural were wolves)
- (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.