Citations:werehog
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English citations of werehog
Noun
[edit]werehog (plural werehogs)
- (rare) A person who is transformed or can transform into a hog or a hoglike human.
- 1989, Michael Westlake, Imaginary Women[2], page 93:
- And - not just any man, but the trimmest 39-for-ever-year-old as took a siesta in a wood in southwestern France after a morning spent hunting truffles and woke up a werehog, the effect it must be acknowledged of a spell cast by his cast-off Marie-Fidèle, something of a charmeuse and a bit of a comédienne, who hails from these parts and decided to get her own back.
- 1994, George D. E. Philip, Kenneth Bourne, Donald Cameron Watt, Regne Unit. Foreign Office, British documents on foreign affairs: reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print. Part I, From the Mid-Nineteenth century to the First World War. Series D, Latin America, 1845-1914[3], page 276:
- ALL loyal and patriotic gentlemen utterly abhorring the weir-hog Jesus, when his swinish gabble is mentioned, with flaming eyes and clenched fists are eager to burn down there and then every gabbling house, and put to the sword the brigands of gibberers.