were wolf

English

Noun

were wolf (plural were wolves)

1. (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.