| 单词 | skin-changer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasskin-changer skin-changer n. [after classical Latin versipellis shape-shifter, werewolf (see versipellous adj.)] a creature who is supposedly able to metamorphose into another form. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > [noun] > cause of transformation > of shape metamorphoser1576 skin-changer1869 shape-shifter1887 1869 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 319 In the second place, we find that a were-wolf was commonly called a ‘skin-changer’ (versipellis). 1927 E. V. Gordon Introd. Old Norse 224 Berserks were probably named ‘bear-shirts’ from a superstition that they were ‘skin-changers’. 1937 J. R. R. Tolkien Hobbit vi. 121 He is a skin-changer. He changes his skin: sometimes he is a huge black bear, sometimes he is a great strong black-haired man with huge arms and a great beard. 2002 Sunday Advocate (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) (Nexis) 27 Oct. (Mag.) 13 Whatever their origin, the stories of ‘skin-changers’ are told across south Louisiana. People who can transform themselves into wolves go out and prowl the bayous after dark. < as lemmas |
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