Nosferatu

nosferatu English Etymology Possibly from a en ro - word for vampire (cf. nesuferit). The term achieved popular currency through Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula and F. W. Murnau's 1922 German film Nosferatu. See also: Wikipedia's article on the etymology of the word (and the references there). Pronunciation en /ˌnɒsfəˈɹɑːtuː/ RP Noun * A vampire. en Dracula en 1897 w:Bram Stoker Dracula 1993 192 "Friend Arthur, if you had met that kiss [...] you would in time, when you had died, have become nosferatu, as they call it in Eastern Europe, and would all time make more of those Un-Deads that so have filled us with horror." en 2018 Kevin Jackson Something to Sink Your Teeth Into Literary Review November Those of us who have dabbled much in the lore of the nosferatu tend to think of them as imaginative creations of the German and English Romantics, and not without reason. en 2018 w:Tim Flannery Europe: A Natural History 26 While it may have been capable of flight, it almost certainly spent its time on Hateg crawling about on its wrists, with its great leathery wings folded over its body like a shroud. A gigantic kind of Nosferatu comes to mind. Derived terms en Nosferatu spider Anagrams en aefnorstu furostane en Vampires en Mythological creatures