| 单词 | devil-devil |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdevil-devil devil-devil n. Australian (now somewhat rare) (a) (in Australian Aboriginal belief) an evil spirit; a manifestation of evil; (b) slang very uneven ground which is difficult to traverse; frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > evil spirit or demon > [noun] evil angel, spiritc950 ghosteOE uncleanOE demonOE devilOE devilshineOE groa1225 debleriea1325 devilnessa1400 devilryc1400 sprat?a1475 nicker1481 fiend of hell1509 imp1526 virtue1584 elf1587 succubus1601 blue devilc1616 black man1656 woolsaw1757 buggane1775 bhut1785 demonic1785 pishachi1807 devil-devil1831 skookum1838 taipo1848 lightning bird1870 demonry1883 pisaca1885 mafufunyanas1963 mare1981 1831 D. Tyerman & G. Bennet Voy. & Trav. II. xxxvi. 156 A man who had a distracting pain in his head was found lying on the ground, and his wife standing upon the afflicted part with both her feet, to drive out the devil-devil—the reduplication of the term signifying the great devil. 1844 L. Leichhardt Jrnl. Overland Exped. Austral. 6 Nov. (1847) 32 Rich black soil, which appeared several times in the form of ploughed land, well known, in other parts of the colony, either under that name, or under that of ‘Devil-devil land’, as the natives believe it to be the work of an evil spirit. 1900 H. Lawson Over Sliprails 108 Black Jimmie shifted away from the hut [of the dead woman]..for the ‘devil-devil’ sat down there. 1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 20 Dec. 34/1 The alternation of wet seasons or floodings on the one hand and of droughts on the other induces characteristic alternations of depressions and rises in heavy soils. These have received various local names, of which melonhole, gilgai, Bay of Biscay, devil-devil and crab-hole are the most frequently met. 1955 N. Pulliam I traveled Lonely Land 116 Opened the throttle and drove through the devil-devil country. 1989 J. Thomson Reaching Back iv. 51 The older people frightened the others with stories of the devil-devil. < as lemmas |
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