Orc vs Werewolf - What's the difference?
orc | werewolf |
(fantasy, mythology) A mythical evil monstrous humanoid creature, usually quite aggressive.
* 1656 , Samuel Holland, Don Zara del Fogo , I.1:
* 1834 , "The National Fairy Mythology of England" in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Vol. 10, p. 53:
* 1954 , (JRR Tolkien), The Fellowship of the Ring :
A person who is transformed or can transform into a wolf or a wolflike human, often said to transform during a full moon.
As nouns the difference between orc and werewolf
is that orc is any of several large, ferocious sea creatures, now especially the killer whale while werewolf is {{context|lang=en|mythology}} A person who is transformed or can transform into a wolf or a wolflike human, often said to transform during a full moon.As an initialism ORC
is orange River Colony, a name given to the Orange Free State when annexed by Britain in 1900.orc
English
(wikipedia orc)Etymology 1
From (etyl) orque, (etyl) orca, and their source, (etyl) .Etymology 2
Probably from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Who at one stroke didst pare away three heads from off the shoulders of an Orke , begotten by an Incubus.
- The chief exploit of the hero, Beowulf the Great, is the destruction of the two monsters Grendel and his mother; both like most of the evil beings in the old times, dwellers in the fens and the waters; and both, moreover, as some Christian bard has taken care to inform us, of "Cain's kin," as were also the eotens, and the elves, and the orcs (eótenas, and ylfe, and orcneas).
- There was a flash like flame and the helm burst asunder. The orc fell with cloven head.