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. A traitor or oath-breaker.
- n. 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. Of or pertaining to a warlock or warlock; impish.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a male witch or demon
Etymologies
- Middle English warloghe, from Old English wǣrloga, oath-breaker : wǣr, pledge; see wērə-o- in Indo-European roots + -loga, liar (from lēogan, to lie; see leugh- in Indo-European roots).
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.”
And Other Tales Of Valdemar
“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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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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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 23 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
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