Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A male witch, sorcerer, wizard, or demon.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A deceiver; a truce-breaker; a traitor.
- n. A person in league with the devil; a sorcerer; a wizard.
- n. A monster.
- n. A fetterlock.
Wiktionary
- n. The male equivalent of witch.
- n. obsolete A traitor or oath-breaker.
- n. obsolete The Devil, Satan; a demon.
- n. A man in league with the Devil; a male magic-user, a wizard.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A male witch; a wizard; a sprite; an imp.
- adj. rare Of or pertaining to a warlock or warlock; impish.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a male witch or demon
Etymologies
- From Old English wǣrloga, from wǣr ("promise") (from Proto-Indo-European *wēr- (“true”); compare veritable) + loga ("liar"), from lēogan ( > English lie); the ending in -ock is from Scottish & Northern English. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English warloghe, from Old English wǣrloga, oath-breaker : wǣr, pledge + -loga, liar (from lēogan, to lie). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“So he and some other Salem folks are planning a ritual on Sunday designed, they told the Gazette to... dissuade Sheen from misusing the word warlock in the future.”
USA Today: Pagans to Sheen: Sorry, Charlie, you're no 'warlock'
“And a trio of Salem witches, not pleased by Sheen's use of the term "warlock," have cast a healing spell in his honor.”
“My old lady, Lucille, hates anything that sounds remotely like music, the new-age shop guy kicked me out because he found the term warlock offensive My great grandfather beat up a warlock.”
“According to Day...the word "warlock" originally referred to men who interacted with the spirit world.”
USA Today: Pagans to Sheen: Sorry, Charlie, you're no 'warlock'
“So any warlock is going to be 90% identical to another warlock of the same level.”
“And the undead warlock is apparently a Undead Shaman, yep!”
“Will thought you were most likely a warlock, which is what I would have guessed myself, but all warlocks have some attribute that marks them as warlocks.”
“It's called the warlock system, which would have detected or set off anything with a wireless signal that would set off that bomb, so they believe this bomb was actually wired probably underground and detonated remotely through that wire instead of wirelessly.”
“The warlock was a short fellow in his late thirties, younger than I, though with his wobbling paunch, graying goatee, and the broken veins in his bulbous nose, he looked older.”
“The Greek magos here means a practitioner of black magic, called warlock in English, from the Old English waerloga a breaker of faith.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘warlock’.
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Olde Englisc
English words of Anglo-Saxon origin.
onslaught, slain, clove, clave, thrice, nincompoop, scorn, storm, scant, lurk, beneath, atop and 143 more...
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macabre
words associated with the macabre & horror.
( open list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.co...ghastly, grisly, culeus, silly, gruesome, horrid, morbid, angelic, shocking, hideous, ghoulish, frightful and 135 more...
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supernatural creatures according to M...
Turned this up on etymonline.com (link). It's amazing.
Hobbit (n.)
1937, coined in the fantasy tales of J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973).
On a blank leaf I scrawled: 'In a hole...niss, nisses, thrummy-cap, fairy, whitewoman, nicknevin, sibyl, fates, sprite, gnome, cuttie, scrat and 186 more...
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End in -ock
Inspired by fbharjo (see spitchcock).
spitchcock, hillock, willock, peacock, pajock, penock, yapock, sycock, bittock, bawcock, burrock, cammock and 168 more...
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FUN - World of Warcraft terminology
cloth wearing player, new player, paladin specifica..., achievement, additional monster, sex, location, agility equivalen..., old kingdom, alchemist, alliance, alterac valley and 424 more...
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Magic Users
Wonderworkers and spellcasters, names and types. Not including any of those -mancer words.
witch, wizard, kahuna, mirabilist, mentalist, magi, illusionist, medicine man, sorcerer, conjurer, diviner, mage and 26 more...
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Brinstar's Words
cobalt, obfuscate, archon, wii, sniper, arcane, celerity, visage, auspicious, ether, epidemic, lich and 138 more...
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je les adore!
fusillade, foal, celestial, abattoir, byzantium, berlin, casablanca, babylon, balkans, albion, avalon, between the devil... and 471 more...
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vorpal's Words
parabiosis, penumbra, defenestrate, portmanteau, sturm und drang, perspicacious, quixotic, copacetic, obfuscate, inveigle, shadenfreude, cloister and 349 more...
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NeoVolt's Words
schadenfreude, serendipity, idiosyncrasy, loess, caducous, vagary, schematic, steeple, licentious, tangential, verisimilitude, vernacular and 385 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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samoritan's Words
moxie, zarf, crepuscular, serenity, halcyon, powerfuller, instant classic, abecedary, trilobite, doomsters, 'da bome, evanescence and 149 more...
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Some Words I Love to Use
arcology, strumpet, crux, confected, pedant, bluestocking, cogitation, incensed, lovecraftian, cygnet, dactyl, adytum and 539 more...
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Charlie Sheen's Famous Words
A list of words which, thanks to Charlie Sheen, have new meaning
bi-winning, warlock, mercury surfboard, Dr. Clown Shoes, tiger blood
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Literary works embracing Mythic America
Great and small works, Moby Dick, the works of Walt Whitman, poems of Emily Dickinson, and so on. If you are a wordie, you know what I mean!
the octopus, warlock, moby-dick, huckleberry finn, ragged dick, "leaves of grass,..., uncle tom's cabin, vineland, angels in america, babbitt
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_mark's keywords ™
words that describe me or that i am focusing on.
( personal list )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/personas--2<...satirical, dark, enigmatic, androgyny, appreciative, opinionated, inquisitive, sensitive, nonchalant, acerbic, scientific, circumspective and 219 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for warlock.
treeseed Never used to describe a modern male practitioner of Wicca...a male witch is simply a male witch. To a Wiccan, warlock is at worst considered a derogatory term and at best a comic one. Jan 27, 2008
treeseed From Merriam-Webster Dictionary
noun
Etymology: Middle English warloghe, from Old English wǣrloga one that breaks faith, the Devil, from wǣr faith, troth + -loga (from lēogan to lie); akin to Old English wǣr true — more at very, lie
Date: 14th century
1 : a man practicing the black arts : sorcerer — compare witch
2 : conjurer Jan 27, 2008