"were-elf" meaning in English

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        "3": "elf"
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      "expansion": "were- + elf",
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  "etymology_text": "From were- + elf.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "were-elves",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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        "1": "were-elves"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "source": "w"
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Fantasy",
          "orig": "en:Fantasy",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2015, Horace S. Mallette, Hunters of Satan’s Monsters: Rise of the Rolling Calf",
          "text": "While the Vamwelf were vampire were-elves, tall and slender.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2012, Candace Jane Kringle, North Pole High: A Rebel Without a Claus, elfpublished books\nMaybe his elf hormones and human hormones had gotten all mixed up, turning him into a were-elf or something."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, Penguin",
          "text": "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 ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Jason Hurlburt, Beasts of Prey, Xlibris Corporation",
          "text": "I destroyed all the / argillaceous menticidepires, menticidethropes, / wereelves, / weresprites, werebrownies, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A shapeshifter who can assume the form of an elf."
      ],
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        [
          "shapeshifter",
          "shapeshifter"
        ],
        [
          "elf",
          "elf"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(fiction, fantasy, rare) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of an elf."
      ],
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        "rare"
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        "fantasy",
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  "word": "were-elf"
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        "2": "were",
        "3": "elf"
      },
      "expansion": "were- + elf",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From were- + elf.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "were-elves",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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      "expansion": "were-elf (plural were-elves)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "en:Fantasy",
        "en:Fiction"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2015, Horace S. Mallette, Hunters of Satan’s Monsters: Rise of the Rolling Calf",
          "text": "While the Vamwelf were vampire were-elves, tall and slender.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2012, Candace Jane Kringle, North Pole High: A Rebel Without a Claus, elfpublished books\nMaybe his elf hormones and human hormones had gotten all mixed up, turning him into a were-elf or something."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, Penguin",
          "text": "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 ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Jason Hurlburt, Beasts of Prey, Xlibris Corporation",
          "text": "I destroyed all the / argillaceous menticidepires, menticidethropes, / wereelves, / weresprites, werebrownies, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "A shapeshifter who can assume the form of an elf."
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        "(fiction, fantasy, rare) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of an elf."
      ],
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  "word": "were-elf"
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