| 单词 | conjure woman |
| 释义 | > as lemmasconjure woman 2. Originally U.S. regional (southern). General use as a modifier in sense Additions 1, as in conjure man, conjure woman, etc.Recorded earliest in conjure bag n. at Additions. ΚΠ 1850 J. P. Kelly Let. 7 Oct. in J. Z. George Rep. High Court Mississippi (1867) 38 I came back from Georgia, and gat my head a little out of their conjur bag... O! that I could breake these conjur clouds off. 1899 C. W. Chesnutt Conjure Woman 146 En so w'en he did n' git no better, she..went ter see ole Aun' Peggy, de cunjuh 'oman. 1909 Sat. Evening Post 29 May 16/1 His mammy used to scare him with tales of the potent ‘conju-man’ who came down in this very swamp and changed skins with the devil. 2013 S. Moody-Turner in G. A. Jarrett Compan. Afr. Amer. Lit. xiii. 210 Annie..is willing to participate in Julius's conjure ritual. < as lemmas |
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