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单词 werewolf
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werewolfn.

Brit. /ˈwɛːwʊlf/, /ˈwɪəwʊlf/, /ˈwəːwʊlf/, U.S. /ˈwɛ(ə)rˌwʊlf/
Forms: α. Old English werewulf, (Middle English werewlf), 1600s–1800s werewolf; plural Middle English werewolfes, 1800s weirwolves, werewolves. β. Middle English–1600s, 1800s werwolf (1500s Scottish werwoif); plural Middle English werwolfs, werwolues, 1800s werwolves. γ. Middle English–1600s Scottish, 1800s warwolf, Middle English–1600s warwolfe, (1600s Scottish warewolf, warwoof); plural 1500s Scottish warwo(o)lfes, 1600s Scottish warwoophs. δ. 1800s wehrwolf.
Etymology: Old English werewulf (once), = Middle Dutch and Dutch weerwolf, Middle High German werwolf (German wer-, wehrwolf), Low German werwulf; also West Frisian waerûl, warûle (and waerwolf after Dutch), Danish and Norwegian varulv, Swedish varulf.The latter may represent an Old Norse *varulf-r, whence Old Northern French garwall (Marie de France, c1175), later guaroul, -ou, garoul, -ou, warou, -eu (modern French loupgarou); Old Norse vargulf-r (by association with varg-r wolf) occurs only in the translation of Marie's lay of Bisclavret.The first element has usually been identified with Old English wer man were n.1, but the form were- in place of wer- (compare however were- and wergild wergild n.), and the variants in war-, var-, makes this somewhat doubtful. Evidence for the real currency of the word (chiefly in the β and γ forms) is rare, and confined to Scots, after the 17th cent. In modern use it has been revived through folklore studies, and until recently the most usual form has been werewolf, and occasionally wehrwolf from German.
1. A person who (according to medieval superstition) was transformed or was capable of transforming himself at times into a wolf; †also, an exceptionally large and ferocious wolf.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > malignant monster > [noun] > werewolf
werewolfc1000
loup-garou1579
lycanthropus1584
lycanthrope1831
lycanthropist1831
turn-skin1831
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Canis > canis lupus (wolf) > large or fierce
wolfc725
werewolfa1425
war-wolf1610
α.
c1000 Laws Cnut xxvi. (Lieberm.) Þæt se wodfreca werewulf to swyðe ne slite, ne to fela ne abite of godcundre heorde.
c1212 Gervase of Tilbury Otia Imperialia xv, in G. W. Leibniz Scriptores Rerum Brunsvicensium (1707) I. 895 Quod hominum genus gerulfos Galli nominant, Angli vero Werewlf, dicunt.
a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) vi Þer beth some [wolves] þat eten children and men..And þei be cleped werewolfes, for men shulde be were of hem, or þe mann see hem.
1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence vii. 237 The were-wolues are certaine sorcerers, who hauing annoynted their bodyes, with an oyntment which they make by the instinct of the deuil; and putting on a certaine inchanted girdel, do not only vnto the view of others seeme as wolues, but to their own thinking haue both the shape and nature of wolues, so long as they weare the said girdel.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Were-wulf or Were-wolf, this name remains still known in the Teutonick, and is as much as to say Man-wolf..One Peter Stump, for being a Were-wolf and having killed Thirteen Children, Two Women, and One man, was..put to a very terrible death.
1818 Q. Rev. 19 68 The weir-wolves of the wilds of Indiana.
1831 A. Herbert in Will. & Werwolf (Roxb.) 4 As a punishment for his ferocity he [sc. Lycaon] was deprived by Jupiter of the human form, and ended his days a were~wolf.
1863 W. K. Kelly Curiosities Indo-European Trad. 253 Stories about werewolves are still current in Germany.
1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. iii. 77 The old doctrine of Werewolves, not yet extinct in Europe.
1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn I. xxvi. 249 Stories of magic and vampires and were-wolves told them by travelled youths.
figurative.1872 H. W. Longfellow Interlude in Three Bks. Song i. 19 The brutes that wear our form and face, The were-wolves of the human race!β. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 3836 I wold him hunte as hard as euer hounde in erthe honted eny werwolf.a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 15 Þat while was þe werwolf went a-boute his praye.c1394 P. Pl. Crede 459 Þei ben wilde wer-wolues, þat wiln þe folk robben.1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur xix. xi. 793 His wyf..made hym seuen yere a werwolf.1568 (a1508) W. Kennedy Flyting (Bannatyne) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 208 Wod werwoif, worme and scorpion vennemous.?1606 M. Drayton Man in Moone in Poemes sig. G8v About the fields religiously they went, with halowing charms the Werwolf thence to fray.1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. x. 266 All the German superstitions of nixies, oak-kings, were-wolves, hobgoblins.1868 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1870) 1st Ser. 115 Lycaon,..after passing through all the stages I have mentioned, becomes the ancestor of the werwolf.1912 E. O'Donnell Werwolves xiii. 212 As in France, the werwolf, in Belgium, is not restricted to one sex.figurative.1902 Spectator 5 July 17/1 When from that underworld..The werwolves of the darkness pour by night And show..their misery and their guilt.γ. 1483 Cath. Angl. 409/1 A Warwolfe, ravus.a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Trial of Fox l. 889 in Poems (1981) 37 The warwolff, and the pegase perillous.c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) clvi a. 602 Huon the souerayne kyng of the fayry..wolde condempne hym parpetually to be a warwolfe in the se [Fr. luyton de mer].1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxxv. 206 Some Wolues..kill children and men sometimes: & then they neuer feede nor pray vpon any other thing afterwards..Such Wolues are called Warwolues, bicause a man had neede to beware of them. [Cf. a1425 at sense 1α. .]1597 King James VI & I Daemonologie iii. i. 61 And are not war-woolfes one sorte of these spirites also..?a1626 W. Rowley Birth of Merlin (1662) sig. G3 Where no Night-hag shall walk, nor Ware-wolf tread.a1722 J. Lauder Jrnls. (1900) 83 Instead of our red dracons and giants they have lougarous or warwoophs.1802 in W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border II. 96 O was it warwolf in the wood..?1817 S. T. Coleridge Zapolya i. i. 55 Madam, that wood is haunted by the war-wolves.1897 S. Baring-Gould Guavas the Tinner xvi They hold Loup [a tamed wolf] to be naught else but a war-wolf.δ. 1834 W. J. Thoms Lays & Leg., France 57 The Lay of Bisclavaret; or, the Wehr-wolf.1855 D. Costello in Bentley's Misc. 38 361 Lycanthropy in London; or The Wehr-Wolf of Wilton-Crescent.1884 J. Davidson Bruce in Plays 190 The wehrwolf, ravening in the warren, growls.1913 R. Hodder Vampire viii. 43 The wehrwolf who discards his human form to bury his fangs in the throats of sleeping children.
2. Scottish dialect. (See quot. 1808.)
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the world > health and disease > ill health > sick person > [noun] > weak person
dwininga1400
molla1425
impotenta1513
gristlea1556
weakling1576
puler1579
puling1579
shadow1588
shotten herring1598
doddle1681
sickrel1699
seven-months1724
wandought1726
wallydraigle1736
wreck1795
werewolf1808
windlestraw1818
weed1825
shammock1828
sickling1834
forcible feeble1844
dwindle1847
weedling1849
crock1876
feebling1887
asthenic1893
dodderer1907
pencil-neck1956
burnt-out case1959
weakie1959
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Warwolf..2. A puny child or an ill-grown person of whatever age; pron. warwoof, Ang.
3. A member of a right-wing paramilitary German underground resistance movement.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > member of specific paramilitary group > [noun]
Sanfedist1842
squadrist1938
Sternist1944
werewolf1945
provisional1970
Provo1971
Razakar1971
Schutzbündler1974
paramilitary1975
Koevoet1983
society > authority > rule or government > politics > German politics > [noun] > political associations or societies > members of
Spartacan1918
Spartacist1919
Stahlhelmer1928
werewolf1945
1945 in Amer. Speech (1949) 24 289/2 It boasted that..underground killers—‘Werewolves’—had carried out the sentence.
1946 E. Linklater Private Angelo xxi. 266 A company of Free Austrians who..handed him over to a ridiculous little party of people who called themselves Werewolves.
1950 C. MacInnes To Victors the Spoils i. 111 Isn't it going to be dangerous..? What about the Gestapo and the werewolves?
1982 C. Thomas Jade Tiger 48 The subject matter of the interrogation—local conditions, Werewolf units, SS and Gestapo individuals' whereabouts.

Compounds

C1. attributive, as werewolf nails, etc.
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15.. Rowll's Cursing (Bannatyne MS.) 192 Dragoun heidis and warwolf nalis, With glowrane evne as glitterand glass.
1879 M. D. Conway Demonol. I. 158 The Were-wolf superstition, which exists still in Russia.
1883 J. S. Stallybrass tr. J. Grimm Teutonic Mythol. III. 1096 Bodin's Dæmonomanie..has several werewolf stories.
C2.
werewolf girdle n. the enchanted girdle by means of which a man could transform himself into a wolf.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > malignant monster > [noun] > werewolf > object used to transform
werewolf girdle1863
1863 W. K. Kelly Curiosities Indo-European Trad. 255 In Germany..the skin of a man that has been hanged makes as good a werewolf girdle as the skin of a wolf.

Derivatives

ˈwerewolfery n. = lycanthropy n. 2.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > malignant monster > [noun] > werewolf > werewolfism
lycanthropy1830
werewolfery1831
werewolfism1865
1831 A. Herbert in Will. & Werwolf (Roxb.) 3 It is obvious to suspect that the most ancient Lycians were proficients in werewolfery.
1912 E. O'Donnell Werwolves i. 3 Persons accused of werwolfery.
ˈwerewolfish adj.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > malignant monster > [adjective] > becoming or resembling a werewolf
lycanthropic1887
werewolfish1891
1891 Cent. Dict. Werewolfish.
ˈwerewolfism n. = lycanthropy n. 2.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > malignant monster > [noun] > werewolf > werewolfism
lycanthropy1830
werewolfery1831
werewolfism1865
1865 S. Baring-Gould Bk. Were-wolves viii. 100 The traditional belief in were-wolfism must, however, have remained long in the popular mind.
1901 Edinb. Rev. July 198 In fact ‘were-wolfism’ is now known to have made the round of the globe.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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