wolfman
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9.3
- noun
- /ˈwʊlfˌmæn/
- Literature
:
hombre lobo
- Under the full moonlight, the man transformed into a wolfman, howling at the night sky.
Examples
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But the wolfman moved too fast for D'Roye to land a killing blow.
Fiction book (2001) -
I didn't believe your story before about the Wolfman, but now I do.
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The Wolfman goes where the Wolfman wants, baby.
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- No, it's the wolfman, who do you think it is?
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Sooner or later, even the Wolfman has to choose.
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I know who the Snow Hollow wolfman is.
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He's turning into the Wolfman.
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The wolfman wants to continue, but Margie agrees it's time to go home.
Fiction book (1991) -
People who watch TV at 3:30 a.m. don't fear the Wolfman.
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"Strange," mused Prince Sergey, "our wolfman trailed his horse straight to this clearing."
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
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7.9
A person who changes into a wolf during a full moon
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9.9
A person who turns into a wolf at the full moon
A person who turns into a wolf and back
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word wolfman is a simple combination of wolf and man, so it literally names a person who is also a wolf. This is the same idea as the older word werewolf, and it explains why a wolfman is someone who changes between human and wolf form.