释义 |
sheogue|ˈʃiog| Also shee-og. [ad. Ir. sióg fairy.] In Ireland: a fairy.
1852W. Wilde Irish Pop. Superstitions 14 The sheeogue [sic] is the true fairy. Ibid. 52 The mystic pipers of the sheogues..are said..to favour mortals with their melodies. 1892W. B. Yeats Countess Kathleen 26 You poured out wine as the wood sheogues do When they'd entice a soul out of the world. Ibid. 50 Brother, where wander all these dwarfish folk, Hostile to men, the sheogues of the tides? 1893― Celtic Twilight 117 He would not hear of ghosts or sheogues. 1959D. A. Mac Manus Middle Kingdom i. 20 There are the stories of human encounters with the small spirits, the ‘wee folk’ of Ulster, the ‘little people’ of the South, the ‘Shee-og’ of Gaeldom. |