hellspawn

noun

Etymology

From hell + spawn.

  1. derived from expandere — “stretch out; spread out
  2. derived from espandre
  3. derived from espaundre
  4. inherited from spawnen
  5. formed as hellspawn — “hell + spawn

Definitions

  1. A creature or creatures from hell.

    • Despite his grim mien, his kinship with vein-biters and hellspawns, Batman always maintained one pious virtue, his unspoken insistence on the value—the sacredness—of human life.
    • Image Animation also fabricated the hellspawns’ bondage-inspired costumes, substituting foam material for the more expensive leather of the previous two films.
    • The face and voice were beyond question those of the man who had died to protect her in a room full of hellspawn and slaughter.
  2. Any monster

    Any monster; a vicious fiend or villain.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hellspawn. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA