What does were wolf mean?

were wolf

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.35 in modern English

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"All these tortures he resisted till the hangman gave him an intoxicating draught, and under its influence he confessed that he was a were wolf after all."
""Ah! Madame!" they said, "what is the use, what can we do against a were wolf?""
"They say that a person turns into a were wolf when he is bitten by another lycanthrope, or even by an ordinary wolf."

were wolves (plural)

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