thivishn.
/ˈθɪvɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈθɪvɪʃ/, Irish English /ˈθɪvɪʃ/ Anglo-Irish.
A ghost, apparition, or spectre.
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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
1852 W. R. Wilde Irish Pop. Superstitions i. 14 Thivishes or thoushas (shadowy apparitions) are literally ghosts.
1852 W. R. Wilde Irish Pop. Superstitions iii. 71 (heading) Reminiscences of the West.—The Welshes.—The Thivish or Fetch.
1852 W. R. Wilde Irish Pop. Superstitions iii. 111 ‘Mother,’ said he, gazing steadily upon the pale anxious face that was bent upon him, ‘I've seen the thivish.’
1888 W. B. Yeats Fairy & Folk Tales 128 Ghosts, or as they are called in Irish, Thevshi or Tash (taidhbhse, tais), live in a state intermediary between this life and the rest. They are held there by some earthly longing or affection.
1892 W. B. Yeats Countess Kathleen iii. 54 Call hither now the sowlths and tevishes.
1963 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Feb. 78/4 In the first version [of The Countess Kathleen]..there is a naive elaboration, in which ‘sheogues’, ‘tevishies’, ‘sowlths’, and other rustic spirits appear.
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