wargus means an outlaw, outcast, or exile; one driven out of society for their crimes. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
wargus is pronounced /ˈwɔː(ɹ)ɡəs/.
Why “wargus” is a great word
WARGUS — [Noun] An outlaw cast from society for crimes, bearing the archaic stain of being declared a wolfish monster. From Anglo-Latin wargus, from Old English wearg, wearh ("outlaw, criminal"), from Proto-West Germanic *warg, from Proto-Germanic *wargaz ("criminal, wolfish individual"), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- ("to twist, bend, crook"). Unlike "outlaw," a general legal designation, or "exile," a political fate, a wargus is one whom society has ritually unmade. It is the shaved head and wolf-pelt hung upon the condemned, the name scratched from the clan-stone, the shadow moving at the edge of the forest firelight—the community's darkest self, made flesh and banished to prove it could be done.
Etymology
From Anglo-Latin wargus, from wearg, wearh (“outlaw, criminal”), from Proto-West Germanic *warg, from Proto-Germanic *wargaz (“criminal, wolfish individual”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to twist, bend, crook”).
noun
- An outlaw, outcast, or exile; one driven out of society for their crimes.“If anyone has dug up or despoiled a body already in the sepulchre, let him be an outlaw (wargus) — that is, let him be expelled from that district until it is agreeable to the relatives of the dead and those relatives themselves have sought on his behalf that he be allowed to live within the district.”