werewolvish
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]werewolvish (comparative more werewolvish, superlative most werewolvish)
- Alternative form of werewolfish.
- 1983, Walter Burkert, translated by Peter Bing, Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 88:
- In Europe, there is at least one case of a “werewolf” on record in sixteenth-century Livland. There, the werewolvish activity consisted for the most part of breaking into other people’s cellars at night and drinking any beer found there.
- 1988 November 4, “What's Shakin'...Nov. 4 through Nov. 10”, in The Catalyst, volume 24, number 6, The Colorado College, page 22:
- Warren Zevon and the Patrician Homeboys will grace Denver's Rainbow Music Hall with their werewolvish presence this Sunday night.
- 1993, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, chapter 17, in The Thread That Binds the Bones, Open Road Integrated Media, published 2016, →ISBN:
- The werewolvish man released Dasher, who yipped and ran to Trixie, cowering behind her.
- 2005 January, Don D’Ammassa, “Critical Mass”, in Chronicle: SF, Fantasy & Horror’s Monthly Trade Journal, volume 27, number 1 / 255, →ISSN, page 21, column 2:
- Raised by wolves, employed as a private investigator, he discovered previously that there are werewolvish aliens living hidden within human society, and that he is akin to them.
- 2013, Ralph O’Connor, The Destruction of Da Derga’s Hostel: Kingship and Narrative Artistry in a Mediaeval Irish Saga, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 97:
- On the possible werewolvish significance of the epithet luchthonn, see Kim McCone, ‘Olr. Olc, Luch- and IE *wĺkʷos, *lúkʷos “Wolf”’, Ériu, 36 (1985), 171–6, pp. 175–6.