warhero

English

Noun

warhero (plural warheroes)

1. Alternative form of war hero
   • 1973, Homi R. Bana, A Study of Tir Yasht, page 38:

     Here we find a story of a real warhero interwoven with scriptural text just to raise the religious spirit of warriors [unintelligible], as well as among the farmers.

   • 1974, Joe Eszterhas, Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse , page 60:

     I saw him playing with that warhero gun, talking about loving life and nature.

   • 1978, John A. Gould, The Greenleaf Fires, page 207:

     I said—I ain't no fucking warhero. I said—nobody shot my hand off, goddamnit.

   • 1989, Aviva Hellman, To Touch a Dream, page 210:

     Thomas Hardwick, a bachelor, a warhero and a scholar, had adopted a tiny, helpless infant he had found while fighting in the desert.

   • 2010, Ruth P.M. Legmann, Beowulf: An Imitative Translation, page 104:

     Then the warhero, Wiglaf, ordered many of the fightingmen, faithful comrades, who were householders, that they heap up wood, fetched from afar, for the folk chieftain, for their hero-king.

   • 2015, C. Hampton Jones, A Major in Distress, Part 2: Death's Sting:

     Major Hengist Agnew, warhero and second son of the Earl of Loghaire, unwittingly deceives the London Regency Ton by taking his brother Lord Philip Morvern's place at important events and even in his marital bed.