warg
/ˈwoɹɡ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.10 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A type of particularly wild or hostile wolf.
verb
To switch to another player character during a game.
Example Sentences
- "But even the wild Wargs (for so the evil wolves over the Edge of the Wild were named) cannot climb trees. […] Every now and then all the Wargs in the circle would answer their grey chief all together, and their dreadful clamour almost made the hobbit fall out of his pine-tree."
- "My question is do all of the executable versions for PC compatibles have the color option enabled? If so, what am I missing to not get say yellow for a hill orc, grey for a goblin, white for my pet, red for a wolf, brown for a warg, etc?"
- "He'd bought a ton of silver to forge magic swords that would slay the Stark wargs."
- "The monsters are identified not as trolls, a word apparently not available in English at the time, but (among other things) as wargs, whatever that means; Grendel is called a heoro-wearh at line 1267 and his mother a grund-wyrgen at line 1518."
- "Even in far-off Braavos, Arya has wolf-dreams, and she can warg into Nymeria’s body; it’s thus that she discovers Catelyn’s body floating in the Trident and drags it out (SS, 65)."
- "Hodor’s origin is finally revealed as well, with Bran warging into the big man’s body."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈwoɹɡ/
- British English: /ˈwɑːɡ/