单词 | dybbuk |
释义 | dybbukn. In Jewish folklore: the malevolent spirit of a dead person that enters and controls the body of a living person until exorcized. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > [noun] > spirit of deceased person ghosteOE soulOE spiritc1384 lemurc1580 shade1616 angel1787 shen1847 dybbuk1877 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). < n.1877 |
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