| 单词 | fair folk |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfair folk fair folk n. chiefly Scottish, Welsh English, and Irish English (with the or in plural) fairies collectively; cf. fairy folk at fairy n. and adj. Compounds 1b. [Compare Welsh tylwyth teg (15th cent.; < tylwyth family, kinsfolk, tribe + teg fair: see mundic n.), and also good folk n. at good adj., n., adv., and int. Compounds 1c.] ΚΠ a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) viii. vi. 7 Nymphis and fawnys..Quhilk fairfolkis..clepyng we [L. Fauni Nymphaeque]. 1602 in H. Paton Dundonald Parish Rec. (1936) 15 Marioun Or..professing hir self to ryd with the fair folk and to haif skill. 1857 A. Maclaren Fairy Family 57 Within these circles it was dangerous for mortals to rest or sleep, for the Fair Folk generally punished such transgressions severely. 1881 W. Sikes Brit. Goblins ii. 12 The modern Welsh name for fairies is y Tylwyth Teg, the fair folk or family. 1898 Literature 24 Sept. 272/1 There yet survives in Ireland the older conception of the ‘good people’, the ‘fair folk’, who must be given a pleasant name precisely because they are evil. 1913 E. M. Wright Rustic Speech & Folk-lore xii. 207 Collective names [for Fairies] are: the Fair Folk, or Gueede Neighbours (ne.Sc.). 2009 A. S. Byatt Children's Bk. (2010) xv. 181 How can it be that our species so steadily and persistently and consistently reported sightings of the fairfolk, and occasional dealings with them, if they do not exist? < as lemmas |
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