Meanings
plural hezrous
- fantasyA toad-like humanoid demon.
A hezrou—a demon like a man-sized toad with spikes running down its back and arms and hands in place of forelegs—turned the handle and threw open the door.
2010, Richard Lee Byers, Unclean: The Haunted Lands1 more example
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.
2001, Kate Nepveu, “some tough questions?”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet)
Origin
Introduced in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game in the 1970s.
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hezrou. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hezrou
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