| 单词 | night-bat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnight-bat night-bat n. (a) Caribbean (Barbados and Guyana) a bat; (b) now literary a ghost, a bogey; (c) chiefly Jamaican, a large night-flying moth. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [noun] soulOE huea1000 ghostOE fantasyc1325 spiritc1350 phantomc1384 phantasmc1430 haunterc1440 shadowa1464 appearance1488 wraith1513 hag1538 spoorn1584 vizarda1591 life-in-death1593 phantasma1598 umbra1601 larve1603 spectre1605 spectrum1611 apparitiona1616 shadea1616 shapea1616 showa1616 idolum1619 larva1651 white hat?1693 zumbi1704 jumbie1764 duppy1774 waff1777 zombie1788 Wild Huntsman1796 spook1801 ghostie1810 hantua1811 preta1811 bodach1814 revenant1823 death-fetch1826 sowlth1829 haunt1843 night-bat1847 spectrality1850 thivish1852 beastie1867 ghost soul1869 barrow-wight1891 resurrect1892 waft1897 churel1901 comeback1908 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xxii. 46 There were found diverse populous nations;..as also of grasse-hoppers, pissemires, lizards, and night-bats [Fr. chauvessouriz]. 1658 tr. S. de Cyrano de Bergerac Satyrical Characters xii. 47 I send..the Hob-goblins, the haggs, the night bats. 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II. 577/1 Night-bat, a ghost. North. 1894 J. Barlow End of Elfintown 35 By the Night-bat's shriek! 1961 F. G. Cassidy Jamaica Talk xiii. 295 Bat or night-bat is usually reserved for the far more impressive moths that fly at dusk and by night, some of which are very large. 1996 R. Allsopp Dict. Caribbean Eng. Usage Night-bat, (Bdos) [= bat, any of the flying mammals of the order Chiroptera]. < as lemmas |
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