| 单词 | good people |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgood people good people chiefly Irish English (with the) the fairies or elves collectively; (also occasionally) witches collectively; cf. good folk n., good neighbour n. 2. [Apparently originally after Scottish Gaelic an sluagh math, †an sluagh maith (collective singular), lit ‘the good people, the good host’ (attested earliest in quot. a1692, in an English context; with the first element compare slogan n.); compare also Irish na daoine maithe, Scottish Gaelic na daoine matha, both lit. ‘the good people’ (plural; first half of the 19th cent. or earlier).] ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > fairy or elf > [noun] > collectively fairya1375 good neighboura1585 faerie1612 good peoplea1692 small people1696 little people1719 Sidhe1724 gentrya1731 little mena1731 small folk1785 little folk1791 gentlefolk1795 the wee folk1819 good folk1820 Pharisee1823 gentle-people1832 fairyhood1844 folk of peace1875 a1692 R. Kirk Secret Commonw. in M. Hunter Occult Lab. (2001) iii. 79 These sith's or Fairies, they call sluagh-maith or the good people..and are said to be of a midle nature betwixt man and Angell. a1731 G. Waldron Descr. Isle of Man 126 in Compl. Wks. (1731) The good People..live in Wilds and Forests, and on Mountains, and shun great Cities because of the Wickedness acted therein. 1803 W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border (ed. 2) II. 228 (note) Fairies [in Ireland]..are termed ‘the good people’. 1889 J. A. Froude Two Chiefs Dunboy vi Babies had been changed in the cradles by the ‘good people’. 1951 C. S. Lewis Let. (1966) 234 The desolate coast on which it stands is haunted by ‘the good people’. There is also a ghost but..the faeries are a more serious danger. 2001 J. McGowan Echoes Savage Land (2006) ii. 46 A small piece was left untouched in the corner of the field for the fairies or ‘good people’. good people your good self (or selves): a form of polite address or reference, typically used in commercial relationships. good people: a courteous form of addressing a body or assembly of people.extracted from goodadj.n.adv.int.< as lemmas |
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