Noun: mer-wolf
| Singular | mer-wolf |
| Plural | mer-wolves |
Sample Sentences
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Wild wind that beareth the spin-drift afar,
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Wild chant that telleth the doom of Asgar,
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Shriek ye, and wail ye, while shudd’ring doth sweep
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Serpent, his sea-horse, adown the great deep,
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Battling and mad like an eagle gone blind,
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Seeking the war-fleets, long sunken, to find ,
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Down to the arms of Queen Ran of the sea,
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Down to the sea-floor, where mer-wolves go free. [1905, The Mount Holyoke, page 44:]
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Well for the terrible mer-wolf, and the caves where the witch-wife lay
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Till we touched her brows where the fir-trees stand and all we witless wanderers wonne! [1918, Dorothy L. Sayers, Catholic Tales and Christian Songs, published 2008, page 57:]
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Bare then the mer-wolf,
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when to the bottom she came,
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The ringed Prince
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to her own place,
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So that he might not,
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for all his proud mind,
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Wield his weapons;
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for such wondrous things
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Swinked him in the sound,
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sea-deer many
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With worrying tusks
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his war-sark tare,
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Chased him the creatures. [1921, Charles Scott Moncrieff, Widsith, Beowulf, Finnsburgh, Waldere, Deor: Done into Common English after the Old Manner, pages 53–54:]
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Above them, more beasts frolicked in the sea: mer-unicorns, mer-dragons, mer-wolves, mer-elephants, even, Megan saw with astonishment, a mer-sphinx. [1994, Patricia A. McKillip, Something Rich and Strange, published 2015, →ISBN:]
Nouns inflected like mer-wolf
machine elf,
foliage leaf,
copresheaf,
B-sheaf,
beewolf,
grey wolf,
technoself,
Abyssinian wolf,
Iberian wolf,
pan-loaf,
mer-wolf,
subsheaf,
woodelf,
farmhouse loaf,
strandwolf,
eigensheaf,
nut loaf,
antiself,
spellthief,
French loaf, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology