were wolf

A form of werewolf — A person who is transformed or can transform into a wolf or a wolflike human, often said to do so during a full moon.

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Meanings

nounwere wolf (plural were wolves)

plural were wolves

  1. alternativerareAlternative form of werewolf.

    "Ah! Madame!" they said, "what is the use, what can we do against a were wolf?"

    1857, Alexandre Dumas, The Wolf Leader
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    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.

    1830, The Polar star of Entertainment and Popular Science

    They say that a person turns into a were wolf when he is bitten by another lycanthrope, or even by an ordinary wolf.

    2009, Ferran Alexandri, The Big Book Of Fantastic Creatures, →ISBN, page 19
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