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单词 wer-
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wer-comb. form

Stress is often attracted to this combining form, e.g. wer-hyena Brit. /ˈwɛːhʌɪˌiːnə/, /ˈwɪəhʌɪˌiːnə/, /ˈwəːhʌɪˌiːnə/, U.S. /ˈwɛrˌhaɪˌinə/, /ˈwɪrˌhaɪˌinə/, /ˈwərˌhaɪˌinə/.
Variant of were- comb. form.
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1802 in W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border II. 100 A wild story of a warwolf, or rather a war bear.]
1838 Court Mag. XIII. 261 A curious story of a wer-bear..is quoted by Sir Walter Scott.
1902 Folk-lore June 157 (note) The wer-tiger beliefs, which are held..by the Peninsular Malays.
1904 G. C. Keidel Man-fox in Japanese Trad. 1 (MS.) The werfox, if we may so call him, is invisible.
1925 C. K. Meek Northern Tribes Nigeria I. 184 The villagers next day taxed the British officer with the death of the Galadima, who was known to be a wer-hyena.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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