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warg

/ˈwɑːɡ/ UK
/ˈwɔːɡ/ UK
/ˈwɑːɡ/ British, Southern, Standard
/ˈwoːɡ/ British, Southern, Standard
/ˈwoɹɡ/ US

Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)ɡ, -ɔː(ɹ)ɡ

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Learned borrowing from Old Norse vargr (“wolf”), reintroduced by J. R. R. Tolkien; compare also Old English wearg. The verb senses emerged from the use of warg in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels as a noun referring to a person with a magical skin-changing ability.

noun wargs

A type of particularly wild or hostile wolf. But even the wild Wargs (for so the evil wolves over the Edge of the Wild were named) cannot climb trees. […] Every now and then all the Wargs in the circle would answer their grey chief all together, and their dreadful clamour almost made the hobbit fall out of his pine-tree.

verb wargs · warging · warged

slang To possess the mind of (and see through the eyes of) another person or animal. Even in far-off Braavos, Arya has wolf-dreams, and she can warg into Nymeria’s body; it’s thus that she discovers Catelyn’s body floating in the Trident and drags it out (SS, 65).
To switch to another player character during a game. I died and warged into my son, and waited around for a succession war in England.

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@misc{warg_2026,
  title = {warg},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/warg},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}