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  • noun mythology A person who transforms into a fox or foxlike form.

Etymologies

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were- +‎ fox

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Examples

  • In modern Moscow, a werefox prostitute falls in love with a werewolf FSB formerly KGB agent, and seeks enlightenment through philosophy and Buddhism.

    capsule review: the sacred book of the werewolf jlundberg 2009

  • The only quibble I had at all was a minor one, that of the werefox nomenclature; A Hu-Li is our first-person protagonist, and her name is set up as a linguistic joke in that, in Russian, it's a vulgar obscenity.

    capsule review: the sacred book of the werewolf jlundberg 2009

  • A Hu-Li is a two thousand year old Chinese werefox in the body of a fifteen year old girl playing the role of a Russian prostitute.

    Sacred Book of the Werewolf by Victor Pelevin « Michele Lee’s Book Love 2009

  • My Monster Mash would be Sasquatch versus The Frankenstein Monster with a werefox thrown in for the hell of it.

    Giant Squid vs. Zombies!! 2006

  • What Ethan doesn't know -- until he is visited by a dimension-hopping werefox named Cutbelly -- is that not only his own individual life but also the life of the entire multiverse is going to depend on just how well Ethan can swing a bat.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

  • I chose to play a yaojing, or werefox, because it's the race and job I play in Perfect World.

    www.awesomeblogs.com 2008

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