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单词 ghost man
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ghost man
c. With other nouns, with the sense ‘that is the disembodied spirit of a dead ——’, as in ghost man, ghost child, ghost dog, etc.
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1826 Daily National Jrnl. (Washington, D.C.) 3 Mar. The ghost boy.
1838 T. Carlyle in London & Westm. Rev. Jan. 301 An impersonal ghost-hero.
1864 Murray's Handbk. Durham & Northumberland ii. 162 A ghost-dog is believed to follow the midwife when she goes to her duties through the streets of Newcastle.
1983 19th-cent. Fiction 37 519 The ghost child whom the adult narrator encounters..is also..a resurrection of an ever-present child within.
2017 E. L. Sánchez I am not your Perfect Mexican Daughter xv. 182 Our cousin Valeria told us about La Llorona, the ghost woman who wails through the streets because she drowned her own children.
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