were-elf

noun

A shapeshifter who can assume the form of an elf.

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Meanings

nounwere-elf (plural were-elves)

plural were-elves

  1. rarefantasyA shapeshifter who can assume the form of an elf.

    2012, Candace Jane Kringle, North Pole High: A Rebel Without a Claus, elfpublished books Maybe his elf hormones and human hormones had gotten all mixed up, turning him into a were-elf or something.

    3 more examples

    While the Vamwelf were vampire were-elves, tall and slender.

    2015, Horace S. Mallette, Hunters of Satan’s Monsters: Rise of the Rolling Calf, →ISBN

    Out inside the works of some neurotic Bavarian cuckoo clock of a village, were-elves streaking in out of the forests at night to leave subversive handbills at door and window ...

    2012, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, Penguin, →ISBN

    I destroyed all the / argillaceous menticidepires, menticidethropes, / wereelves, / weresprites, werebrownies, […]

    2012, Jason Hurlburt, Beasts of Prey, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

Origin

From were- + elf.

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APA

were-elf. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/were-elf

MLA

“were-elf.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/were-elf. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “were-elf,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/were-elf.

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