woodwose

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Main areas of interest are cryptids reported in and around the British Isles (lake monsters, sea serpents, alien / native (yes native!) big cats and woodwose (hominids).

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  1. A wild man of the woods; a satyr or faun. Representations of woodwoses often appear in heraldry as supporters. Wodwos that woned in the knarreʒ [rocks]. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), l. 721. In he schokkes his scheldc, sehountes he no lengare; Bot alles unwyse wodewyse he wente at the gayneste. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), l. 3818. Some like brute beasts grazed upon the ground, some went naked, some roamed like woodwoses. Sir T. Wilson (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 464).

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  • Main areas of interest are cryptids reported in and around the British Isles (lake monsters, sea serpents, alien / native (yes native!) big cats and woodwose (hominids). —  Cryptomundo
 

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  1. Also, corruptly, woodhouse; from Middle English woodwose, wodewose, wodewese, woodwyse, wowyse; from Anglo-Saxon wudewāsa, a man of the woods, a faun or satyr, from wudu, wood, + wāsa, prob. ‘a being,’ from wesan, dial, wosan. be: see was.
 

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