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单词 dybbuk
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dybbukn.

Brit. /ˈdɪbᵿk/, /diːˈbuːk/, U.S. /ˈdɪbək/
Inflections: Plural dybbukim, dybbuks.
Forms: 1800s–1900s dibbuk, 1900s– dybbuk.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Yiddish. Partly a borrowing from Hebrew. Etymons: Yiddish dibuk; Hebrew dibbūq.
Etymology: < Yiddish dibuk and its etymon Hebrew dibbūq < dāḇaq to cling, cleave.In plural form dybbukim after the Yiddish and Hebrew plural forms (respectively, dibukim and dibbuqīm).
In Jewish folklore: the malevolent spirit of a dead person that enters and controls the body of a living person until exorcized.
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1877 Jewish Intelligence July 28/2 Several bigoted Jews came together, and on hearing her incoherent ravings concluded that she was possessed with a dibbuk, i.e., an evil spirit.
1926 H. Alsberg & W. Katzin tr. ‘S. Ansky’ (title) The dybbuk.
1929 T. Wolfe Look homeward, Angel (1930) xxx. 431 An old Jew who muttered jargon into a rabbi's beard as if saying a spell against Dybbuks.
1963 A. Baron Lowlife (2001) xix. 191 ‘Deb, once upon a time you tried to give me something.’ ‘I must have had a dybbuk in me.’
2000 N.Y. Mag. 1 May 42/2 They prescribed high doses of Prozac and lithium to subdue whatever dybbuk had possessed him.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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