单词 | jettatura |
释义 | jettaturan. The evil eye (see evil adj. 6); bad luck. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck > causing or bringing misfortune > one who or that which foota1225 woea1300 infortunec1405 infortunate1558 jettatura1822 bad medicine1857 hoodoo1882 voodoo1902 jinx1911 mock1911 mocker1923 kiss of death1948 1822 London Mag. Sept. 228/1 Little pieces of twisted coral, which are worn about the neck as charms against the jettatura. 1855 E. C. Gaskell Accursed Race in Househ. Words 25 Aug. 78/2 Their glance, if you meet it, is the jettatura, or evil eye. 1882 C. M. Yonge Unknown to Hist. II. iii. 34 'Tis not only the jettatura wherewith the Queen Mother used to reproach me. Men need but bear me good will, and misery overtakes them. 1892 A. Lang Bks. & Bookmen (new ed.) 122 The superstitious might have been excused for crediting him with the gift of jettatura,—of the evil eye. 1928 N. Richardson Mother of Kings iii. 181 ‘Poor fellow—it cost him his head, this and his friendship for Dubarry.’ ‘Let us hope it will not cast such a jettatura upon you, Joseph.’ 1997 A. M. Kraut in L. Marks & M. Worboys Migrants, Minorities, & Health x. 235 Southern Italians often attributed illness to the influence of one who had the jettatura. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1822 |
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