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banshee

/banˈʃiː

/ /ˈbanʃiː

noun

(In Irish legend) a female spirit whose wailing warns of a death in a house: the little girl dropped her ice cream and began to howl like a banshee [as modifier]: a horrible banshee wail...

The good folk of Ireland quail in their beds when they hear the banshee wail of the Irish Postie.
Harry and Dolly have been in and out like Swiss cuckoos, demanding I open the door the instant the rain has stopped and the wind dropped, then wailing like banshees when things got bad again.
I croaked, woken from my recurrent dream of loading reams of information onto the computer, by a banshee wail that went on and on, somewhere in the very near vicinity.

Origin

Late 17th century: from Irish bean sídhe, from Old Irish ben síde 'woman of the fairies'.

A banshee in Irish legend is a female spirit who wails a warning of an imminent death in a house; the word is ultimately from Old Irish ben síde ‘woman of the fairies’.

单词	banshee
释义	banshee /banˈʃiː / /ˈbanʃiː / noun (In Irish legend) a female spirit whose wailing warns of a death in a house: the little girl dropped her ice cream and began to howl like a banshee [as modifier]: a horrible banshee wail... The good folk of Ireland quail in their beds when they hear the banshee wail of the Irish Postie. Harry and Dolly have been in and out like Swiss cuckoos, demanding I open the door the instant the rain has stopped and the wind dropped, then wailing like banshees when things got bad again. I croaked, woken from my recurrent dream of loading reams of information onto the computer, by a banshee wail that went on and on, somewhere in the very near vicinity. Origin Late 17th century: from Irish bean sídhe, from Old Irish ben síde 'woman of the fairies'. A banshee in Irish legend is a female spirit who wails a warning of an imminent death in a house; the word is ultimately from Old Irish ben síde ‘woman of the fairies’. Rhymes Comanche
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