(n.) A sylvan deity or demigod, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness.
(n.) Any one of many species of butterflies belonging to the family Nymphalidae. Their colors are commonly brown and gray, often with ocelli on the wings. Called also meadow browns.
(n.) The orang-outang.
Example Sentences:
(1) But when he laughed – which was a lot – he looked like an elderly satyr.
(2) Yet Frost failed to convince Private Eye (launched in 1961), which routinely portrayed him in cartoons – scenes of toga'd Roman decadence were popular in the Profumo scandal phase of Harold Macmillan's rule – as "Juvenile, the court satyr with faithful audience of Daily Mail columnists," a man whose quiff cost 25 guineas at fashionable Raymonde's salon, the Eye told readers.
(3) Picasso is wheeled on too, but his print of a satyr contemplating a nymph is a homage to Rembrandt, not Rubens.
(4) The director of the notorious 1991 French folly Les amants du Pont-Neuf has been away from feature films for more than a decade, and returned at Cannes with the nuttiest offering on display, featuring that wonderful French actor Denis Lavant – part acrobat, part mime artist, part satyr – as Monsieur Oscar, who plays 11 different parts, changing in the back of a white limo as it glides around Paris from one rendezvous to another.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest V&A Collection Andrea Riccio Satyr and Satyress (1510-1520) V&A, London In Greek and Roman mythology satyrs are goat-legged followers of the wine god Bacchus, hairy votaries of sex, dance and ecstasy.
(6) Did I actually fancy this rather strange little satyr of a man in his funny heels?
(7) Comparison of these four patients suggests a characteristic phenotype in the 4q- syndrome: cleft palate, satyr deformity of the pinnae, snub nose, retrognathia and micrognathia, hypertelorism, oropharyngeal hypothonia or upper airway obstruction, cardiac defect, clinodactyly of the fifth fingers with absence of a flexion crease, simian lines, displaced or clinodactylous toes, and mental retardation.
(8) It's a big silver dish decorated with scenes of satyrs and other worshippers of Bacchus, a good theme for a boozy Roman banquet.
(9) My favourite scene is a very hot and very sweet threesome with Mouse, Ben and a beautiful youth dressed as a satyr.
(10) Here, however, the brilliant craftsman Riccio imagines a satyr couple, tenderly embracing in some balmy woodland nook.
(11) However, in a few species, including the ostrich, rheas, kiwis, some tinamous, the red-throated loon, screamers, the satyr tragopan, the great bustard, and the pin-tailed sandgrouse, the ceca are sacculated or have diverticula.
(12) The whole work is crammed and crowded with the Dadd mixture of intricate plant life and small figures on all scales – a miniature bacchanal with satyrs, and a dead deer on a pole that rushes along above Titania's head.
(13) The proband shows the full spectrum of anomalies, including imperforate anus, prominent perineal raphe, rectoperineal fistula, triphalangeal thumb, preaxial hexadactyly, syndactyly, clinodactyly, preauricular protuberances, hypoplastic satyr ears, sensorineural hearing loss and urorenal anomalies.
Werewolf
Definition:
(n.) A person transformed into a wolf in form and appetite, either temporarily or permanently, whether by supernatural influences, by witchcraft, or voluntarily; a lycanthrope. Belief in werewolves, formerly general, is not now extinct.
Example Sentences:
(1) He just look sideways and for some reason it’s funny.” But Clement himself names Rhys Darby, aka the Conchords’ manager, Murray, who plays a werewolf in Shadows, as the funniest man he has ever worked with – even if he does appear in “too many ads”.
(2) It sounded like a werewolf exorcising a roomful of crucified sopranos.)
(3) It brings to mind the image of a werewolf not being able to stop his transformation at full moon, but do we really believe this?
(4) Hostel is undoubtedly the most unpleasant film I have ever seen,” he said, while Roth’s Netflix series Hemlock Grove “made An American Werewolf in London look like Mary Poppins”.
(5) A semi-rotted werewolf hangs around by the door, with a hole blowtorched right through his leg.
(6) They seem to have a werewolf smoking a pipe as the logo - perhaps a reference to the wolf who nursed Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome - but why the reference to Bob Marley air freshener?"
(7) The actor – known to Twi-hards for his role as werewolf Jacob Black in the hit movie series – is joining the BBC3 show for its second series.
(8) Five movie repeat An American Werewolf in London averaged 400,000 viewers, 6% of the audience, between 11pm and 12.45am.
(9) 8.07pm GMT Out they come, with Susanna’s minty fringed dress clashing horribly with her gravy tan, and Kevin dressed as a camp werewolf.
(10) Updated at 8.43pm GMT 8.39pm GMT Luke’s singing Moondance, presumably before it’s what he does right before he turns into a werewolf each night, which he does right before all the other werewolves take the piss out of him for looking a bit like Mick Hucknall.
(11) Just shoot me…" Fast-forward a few months and Slade would be found eating his words ("I think I've eaten more than enough humble pie," he told me later), stating that those comments were made before he'd ever read Stephenie Meyer's novels about a young woman whose affections are divided between a vampire and a werewolf, or seen the blockbusting movies, all of which turned out to be far more interesting, intelligent and inspiring than he had ever imagined.
(12) I hope it turns out that Lara's been a werewolf all this time – but I suspect he means that her character and spirit come under such attack that she's reduced to fight-or-flight responses.
(13) In 2007 it was all about Blake Commagere and AJ Olson's vampire, zombie and werewolf biting games, which required players to recruit Facebook friends into their monster covens.
(14) Ultimate Werewolf Monsters are stalking the village.
(15) He is a 28 years old man, imprisoned for deadly violence, who has been showing, for many years, the belief of being transformed into a werewolf during depersonalization episodes when he presents a lycanthropic behaviour.
(16) In the morning, the people wake to find one of their number slain and vote to execute another player as a suspected werewolf.
(17) Dan and Kevin Hageman, who wrote forthcoming CGI feature Hotel Transylvania, about a rooming house in which Frankenstein, the Mummy, Dracula and the Werewolf hide out after the 21st century casts them into irrelevance, are penning the script.