“banshee”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

banshee

释义

banshee|ˈbænʃiː|
Forms: 8 benshi, -shea, 9 -shie, banshie, -shee.
[A phonetic spelling of Ir. bean sídhe:—OIr. ben síde ‘female, or woman, of the fairies or elves.’]
A supernatural being supposed by the peasantry of Ireland and the Scottish Highlands to wail under the windows of a house where one of the inmates is about to die. Certain families of rank were reputed to have a special ‘family spirit’ of this kind.
1771Pennant Tour Scot. 24 Aug. (1769), The cries and shrieks of Benshi, or the Fairies wife.1810Scott Lady of L. iii. vii, The fatal Ben-shie's boading scream.1829― Demonol. x. 348 The distinction of a banshie is only allowed to families of the pure Milesian stock.1876M. E. Braddon J. Haggard's Dau. II. 67 As if she had heard the family banshee shrieking at her.

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