wehrwolf

English

Noun

wehrwolf (plural wehrwolves)

1. Archaic form of werewolf.
   • 1896, Good Words and Sunday Magazine, volume 37, page 262:

     Nice, imagining that Jean had heard—who knows? perhaps seen, the ghouls and wehrwolves who were calling him from without, clasped her horny hands round the neck of her young master […]

References

• “wehrwolf”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• wher-wolf