Complete Definition of "woodwose"

English

Etymology
Late OE. wuduwasa|wuduw�sa, aslo ME. wodwo.

Pronunciation
IPA|/'w�dw��z/

Noun
en-noun

  1. A wild man of the woods; a faun, a satyr or a representation of such a being in heraldry or other decoration.

#:*1962: 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. � Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

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