hezrou

English

Etymology

Introduced in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game in the 1970s.

Noun

hezrou (plural hezrous)

1. (fantasy) A toad-like humanoid demon.
   • 2001, Kate Nepveu, “some tough questions?”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet):

     If you play with certain demons (mariliths, vrocks, hezrous, bone devils, nalfeshnees, pit fiends, or water demons), you could eventually get Yeenoghu anywhere, and then he could get you Demo.

   • 2010, Richard Lee Byers, Unclean: The Haunted Lands:

     A hezrou—a demon like a man-sized toad with spikes running down its back and arms and hands in place of forelegs—turned the handle and threw open the door.