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Ewok

Ewok noun: a member of a fictional, primitive race of teddy-bear-like creatures.

Noun

Ewok (plural Ewoks)

  1. A member of a fictional, primitive race of teddy-bear-like creatures.
    • Those vampire-wanna-bes, who are actually cute in a Ewok/troll doll sort of way, pick their teeth nightly after a six-course wing fling.2000, Lori Torrance, Tea for Texas: A Guide to Tearooms in the State, page 15
    • Tripping a walker the size of a house is difficult but not impossible. You will need high-tensile wire and suitably grounded posts. Ask your Ewok friends for help.2005, Daniel H. Wilson, How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Bloomsbury,, →ISBN, page 134

Examples of Ewok in a sentence

  • She looked like a little plump Ewok, standing with Big Foot.2008, Grace Octavia, His First Wife, Dafina Books,, →ISBN, page 30:
  • It’s been claimed that Jon has a string of mistresses, that Kate had an affair with her bodyguard and that Baby Number Six is actually a shaved Ewok with a catastrophic heroin addiction.2009 May 22, Stuart Heritage, “Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About”, in Hecklerspray, archived from the...

Forms of Ewok

pluralEwoks

Origin of Ewok

Coined by American filmmaker George Lucas in 1983 from the syllabic reverse of Wookiee. The name first appeared in the end titles of the film Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.

Questions about Ewok

What does Ewok mean?
Ewok means a member of a fictional, primitive race of teddy-bear-like creatures.
How do you use Ewok in a sentence?
She looked like a little plump Ewok, standing with Big Foot.
What part of speech is Ewok?
Ewok is a noun.
What is the plural of Ewok?
The plural of Ewok is Ewoks.

Words near Ewok in the dictionary

  1. ewks
  2. EWKT
  3. Ewlyn
  4. EWMA
  5. EWMAs
  6. Ewok
  7. Ewoks
  8. Ewoldt
  9. Ewoldts
  10. ewomancipation
  11. Ewondo

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