banshee

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A female spirit, usually taking the form of a woman whose mournful wailing warns of an impending death. Ireland,Scotland
    — Late had he heard, in prophet's dream, / The fatal Ben-Shie's boding scream […].
  2. A noisy or ill-tempered woman. derogatory
    — Where's this old banshee that runs the place?

词形变化

banshees plural banshie alternative,archaic benshee alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
bansheelike
相关词
sidhe

词源

Borrowed from Irish bean sí, from Old Irish ben síde (literally “woman of the fairy mound”). The term banshee entered English in 1771.
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