Meaning of werewolvish | Babel Free

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Adjective. [C1]

Examples

“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.”

“Warren Zevon and the Patrician Homeboys will grace Denver's Rainbow Music Hall with their werewolvish presence this Sunday night.”

“The werewolvish man released Dasher, who yipped and ran to Trixie, cowering behind her.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Cameron could feel no werewolvish urges in his body, no strange desire to stretch and quiver and change.”

“The other two creatures behind the hag, before Sashkoth, were extremely hairy, disturbed-looking humans, who looked werewolvish.”

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