were-elf

were-elf

English

Etymology

From were- +‎ elf.

Noun

were-elf (plural were-elves)

1. (fiction, fantasy, rare) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of an elf.
   • 2015, Horace S. Mallette, Hunters of Satan’s Monsters: Rise of the Rolling Calf, →ISBN.

     While the Vamwelf were vampire were-elves, tall and slender.

   • 2012, Candace Jane Kringle, North Pole High: A Rebel Without a Claus, elfpublished books

     Maybe his elf hormones and human hormones had gotten all mixed up, turning him into a were-elf or something.

   • 2012, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, Penguin (→ISBN)

     Out inside the works of some neurotic Bavarian cuckoo clock of a village, were-elves streaking in out of the forests at night to leave subversive handbills at door and window ...

   • 2012, Jason Hurlburt, Beasts of Prey, Xlibris Corporation (→ISBN)

     I destroyed all the / argillaceous menticidepires, menticidethropes, / wereelves, / weresprites, werebrownies, ...