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were-elf en · NOUN

Etymology

From were- + elf.

Meanings

1. (rare) A 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.
   • I destroyed all the / argillaceous menticidepires, menticidethropes, / wereelves, / weresprites, werebrownies, […] 2012, Jason Hurlburt, Beasts of Prey, Xlibris Corporation, →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:
   • 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:

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