werecrabとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

werecrab (複数形 werecrabs)

1. (fiction, まれに) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a crab.
   • 1999 August 3, Pinky the Werecrab, "question..", alt.romath.

     I am a werecrab.

   • 2014, Jeffrey N. Cox, Romanticism in the Shadow of War, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 1107071941, page 20

     He preached that the Great Spirit had created the Indians but not the whites, whom he hated as the spawn of “an enormous, foul werecrab, which had first crawled out of the sea in the vicinity of Boston, Massachusetts”; soon an apocalypse would come in which the whites and those Indians who followed their ways would be swept aside.

   • 2015, Lisa Shearin, Con and Conjure, NLA Digital, ISBN 1620511770.

     Apparently werecrabs did.