alternative spelling of loup-garou (“werewolf; rougarou”)
“Quand j’étais tout petit ma mère nous faisait peur le soir pour qu’on reste autour de la maison. Alle nous disait que y avait un homme qui tournait rougarou. Et cet individu, tous les soirs, il embrassait sa femme, il disait qu’il allait boire de la bière ou aller au café ou quelque place, et là à moitié route il tournait rougarou puis là il venait faire peur à tout le monde.” — When I was young my mother would scare us in the evening so we would stay around the house. She told us that there was a man who changed into a werewolf. This guy, every night he kissed his wife, he said he was going to drink beer or go to the café or somewhere, and halfway there he changed into a werewolf and then came to scare people.
Related: courir rougarou, en rougarou, faire rougarou, faire le rougarou, faire son rougarou
Corruption of loup-garou based on the phonetic similarity between /l/ and /r/. Compare, for example, Louisiana French lézard / rézard and latanier / ratanier.