| 单词 | turn-skin |
| 释义 | > as lemmasturn-skin turn-skin n. [rendering Latin versipellis] one who turns or changes his skin; spec. one who can turn into a wolf at will, a were-wolf. ΘΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > malignant monster > [noun] > werewolf werewolfc1000 loup-garou1579 lycanthropus1584 lycanthrope1831 lycanthropist1831 turn-skin1831 1831 A. H. in Will. & Werwolf (1832) 6 That notion has become so inveterate, that a turnskin (versipellis) is become a common term of reproach. 1861 T. L. Peacock Gryll Grange xxxiv I felt that he was a turnskin, and I could never after taste bread with him. 1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. iii. 77 Men who are versipelles or turnskins have the actual faculty of jumping out of their skins, to become for a time wolves. < as lemmas |
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