woodwose

English

Etymology

Late Old English wuduwāsa.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈwʊdwəʊz/

Noun

woodwose (plural woodwoses)

  1. A wild man of the woods; a faun, a satyr or a representation of such a being in heraldry or other decoration.
    • 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire:
      The young woodwose had now closed his eyes and was stretched out supine on the pool's marble margin; his Tarzan brief had been cast aside on the turf.
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