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were wolf en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative, rare) Alternative form of werewolf.
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: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:"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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