"werewolvish" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "more werewolvish",
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        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most werewolvish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "werewolvish (comparative more werewolvish, superlative most werewolvish)",
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    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "werewolfish"
        }
      ],
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          "source": "w"
        },
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          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1983, Walter Burkert, translated by Peter Bing, Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 88:",
          "text": "In Europe, there is at least one case of a “werewolf” on record in sixteenth-century Livland. There, the werewolvish activity consisted for the most part of breaking into other people’s cellars at night and drinking any beer found there.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988 November 4, “What's Shakin'...Nov. 4 through Nov. 10”, in The Catalyst, volume 24, number 6, The Colorado College, page 22:",
          "text": "Warren Zevon and the Patrician Homeboys will grace Denver's Rainbow Music Hall with their werewolvish presence this Sunday night.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, chapter 17, in The Thread That Binds the Bones, Open Road Integrated Media, published 2016, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The werewolvish man released Dasher, who yipped and ran to Trixie, cowering behind her.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005 January, Don D’Ammassa, “Critical Mass”, in Chronicle: SF, Fantasy & Horror’s Monthly Trade Journal, volume 27, number 1 / 255, →ISSN, page 21, column 2:",
          "text": "Raised by wolves, employed as a private investigator, he discovered previously that there are werewolvish aliens living hidden within human society, and that he is akin to them.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Ralph O’Connor, The Destruction of Da Derga’s Hostel: Kingship and Narrative Artistry in a Mediaeval Irish Saga, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 97:",
          "text": "On the possible werewolvish significance of the epithet luchthonn, see Kim McCone, ‘Olr. Olc, Luch- and IE *wĺkʷos, *lúkʷos “Wolf”’, Ériu, 36 (1985), 171–6, pp. 175–6.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Roy Gill, “Pretty Good Year”, in Werewolf Parallel, KelpiesTeen, Floris Books, →ISBN, page 268:",
          "text": "Cameron could feel no werewolvish urges in his body, no strange desire to stretch and quiver and change.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Matilda Raj, “The Hag and the Relatives”, in The Churning Lake, Xlibris, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The other two creatures behind the hag, before Sashkoth, were extremely hairy, disturbed-looking humans, who looked werewolvish.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of werewolfish."
      ],
      "id": "en-werewolvish-en-adj-RT89ROM9",
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    }
  ],
  "word": "werewolvish"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more werewolvish",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most werewolvish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
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      "expansion": "werewolvish (comparative more werewolvish, superlative most werewolvish)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "word": "werewolfish"
        }
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        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1983, Walter Burkert, translated by Peter Bing, Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 88:",
          "text": "In Europe, there is at least one case of a “werewolf” on record in sixteenth-century Livland. There, the werewolvish activity consisted for the most part of breaking into other people’s cellars at night and drinking any beer found there.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988 November 4, “What's Shakin'...Nov. 4 through Nov. 10”, in The Catalyst, volume 24, number 6, The Colorado College, page 22:",
          "text": "Warren Zevon and the Patrician Homeboys will grace Denver's Rainbow Music Hall with their werewolvish presence this Sunday night.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, chapter 17, in The Thread That Binds the Bones, Open Road Integrated Media, published 2016, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The werewolvish man released Dasher, who yipped and ran to Trixie, cowering behind her.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005 January, Don D’Ammassa, “Critical Mass”, in Chronicle: SF, Fantasy & Horror’s Monthly Trade Journal, volume 27, number 1 / 255, →ISSN, page 21, column 2:",
          "text": "Raised by wolves, employed as a private investigator, he discovered previously that there are werewolvish aliens living hidden within human society, and that he is akin to them.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Ralph O’Connor, The Destruction of Da Derga’s Hostel: Kingship and Narrative Artistry in a Mediaeval Irish Saga, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 97:",
          "text": "On the possible werewolvish significance of the epithet luchthonn, see Kim McCone, ‘Olr. Olc, Luch- and IE *wĺkʷos, *lúkʷos “Wolf”’, Ériu, 36 (1985), 171–6, pp. 175–6.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Roy Gill, “Pretty Good Year”, in Werewolf Parallel, KelpiesTeen, Floris Books, →ISBN, page 268:",
          "text": "Cameron could feel no werewolvish urges in his body, no strange desire to stretch and quiver and change.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Matilda Raj, “The Hag and the Relatives”, in The Churning Lake, Xlibris, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The other two creatures behind the hag, before Sashkoth, were extremely hairy, disturbed-looking humans, who looked werewolvish.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of werewolfish."
      ],
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        ]
      ],
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  "word": "werewolvish"
}