| 单词 | good folk |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgood folk good folk n. originally and chiefly Scottish (with the or occasionally in plural) fairies or elves collectively; also occasionally witches collectively; cf. fair folk n. at fair adj. and n.1 Compounds 1b, good people. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > fairy or elf > [noun] > collectively fairya1375 good neighboura1585 faerie1612 good peoplea1692 small people1696 little people1719 Sidhe1724 gentrya1731 little mena1731 small folk1785 little folk1791 gentlefolk1795 the wee folk1819 good folk1820 Pharisee1823 gentle-people1832 fairyhood1844 folk of peace1875 1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 673/2 The fairies, the ‘good folk’ of our grandmothers..have been expelled. 1892 J. Jacobs Celtic Fairy Tales xxv. 224 She did not much like going and leaving her little ones all alone in a solitary house, especially as she had heard tell of the good folk haunting the neighbourhood. 1931 Scots Mag. Aug. 340 The ‘gude fiks’, or good folks..resemble the fairies of the south in appearance and the powers attributed to them. 2005 W. Behringer in G. Klaniczay & E. Pócs Communicating with Spirits ii. 175 The good folk, who produced heavenly music, danced in blessed houses, cooked entire cows or oxen, which they restored to life from their skins and bones the next morning. < as lemmas |
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