werecrab

English

Etymology

From were- +‎ crab.

Noun

werecrab (plural werecrabs)

1. (fiction, rare) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a crab.
   • 1999 August 3, Pinky the Werecrab, "question..", alt.romath.

     I am a werecrab.

   • 2014, Jeffrey N. Cox, Romanticism in the Shadow of War, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 20:

     He preached that the Great Spirit had created the Indians but not the whites, whom he hated as the spawn of “an enormous, foul werecrab, which had first crawled out of the sea in the vicinity of Boston, Massachusetts”; soon an apocalypse would come in which the whites and those Indians who followed their ways would be swept aside.

   • 2015, Lisa Shearin, Con and Conjure, NLA Digital, →ISBN:

     Apparently werecrabs did.