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wereowl en · NOUN

Etymology

From were- + owl.

Meanings

  1. A shapeshifter who can assume the form of an owl.
    • 1993, Patricia Kindl, Owl in Love, Graphia (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), →ISBN, page 42. The garden of a wereowl at midnight makes a perilous salad bar.
    • There was a wereowl at school who was always complaining that the lights were too bright. Of course, if I'd been a wereowl, I wouldn't have needed to be here. 2017, Emily Martha Sorensen, Trials of a Teenage Werevulture, Emily Martha Sorensen:

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