| 释义 |
duppy|ˈdʌpɪ|
[Understood to be of African origin.]
Name among West Indian Negroes for a ghost or spirit.
1774Long Hist. Jamaica II. 416 They firmly believe in the apparition of spectres. Those of deceased friends are duppies; others..like our raw-head-and-bloody-bones, are called bugaboos. 1834M. G. Lewis Jrnl. West Ind., The negroes are..very much afraid of ghosts, whom they call the duppy. 1885A. Brassey The Trades 215 After dark nothing would induce them to pass the mangrove-swamps or cockle-ponds, for fear of ‘Duppies’. 1896N. Darnell Davis (Br. Guiana) in Letter, Only last Saturday morning, my butler was told by a man that ‘the Duppies had been troubling the telephone wire’. |