| 单词 | death-fetch |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdeath-fetch death-fetch n. [ < death n. + fetch n.2; in sense (b) probably influenced by association with fetch n.1] (a) an apparition or double of a living person that is superstitiously believed to portend the person's death; (b) a spirit supposed to come and take people to their deaths. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [noun] soulOE huea1000 ghostOE fantasyc1325 spiritc1350 phantomc1384 phantasmc1430 haunterc1440 shadowa1464 appearance1488 wraith1513 hag1538 spoorn1584 vizarda1591 life-in-death1593 phantasma1598 umbra1601 larve1603 spectre1605 spectrum1611 apparitiona1616 shadea1616 shapea1616 showa1616 idolum1619 larva1651 white hat?1693 zumbi1704 jumbie1764 duppy1774 waff1777 zombie1788 Wild Huntsman1796 spook1801 ghostie1810 hantua1811 preta1811 bodach1814 revenant1823 death-fetch1826 sowlth1829 haunt1843 night-bat1847 spectrality1850 thivish1852 beastie1867 ghost soul1869 barrow-wight1891 resurrect1892 waft1897 churel1901 comeback1908 1826 C. E. Horn (title of song) ‘The Moon is on the Hill’, a ballad, sung..in the new operatic romance called Death-Fetch, or the Student of Gottingen, etc. 1829 W. Maginn Tales Mil. Life I. xiii. 294 The tales of death-fetches and banshees, so often and so variously told by the superstitious peasants of his native hills. 1891 Harper's Mag. Oct. 815/1 Any unusual occurrence fell under the suspicion of being a death-fetch. 1994 D. Schweitzer in M. Kaye Game is Afoot 367 Do you know what I mean when I say I have seen my death-fetch? < as lemmas |
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