[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Late Old English wuduwāsa, also Middle English wodwo.
[edit] Pronunciation
woodwose (plural woodwoses)
- A wild man of the woods; a faun, a satyr or a representation of such a being in heraldry or other decoration.
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- 1962: The young woodwose had now closed his eyes and was stretched out supine on the pool's marble margin; his Tarzan brief had been cast aside on the turf. — Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
