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, […]
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