woodwose

noun /ˈwʊdwəʊz/

1. A wild man of the woods; a faun or satyr, or a representation of such a being in heraldry or other decoration.

   The young woodwose had now closed his eyes and was stretched out supine on the pool's marble margin; his Tarzan brief had been cast aside on the turf.

Where it comes from

From Middle English wodwo, from Old English wuduwāsa.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry woodwose (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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