单词 | sheogue |
释义 | sheoguen. In Ireland: a fairy. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > fairy or elf > [noun] elfOE elvena1100 spiritc1350 fay1393 fairyc1405 mammeta1425 sprite?1440 lady1538 faerie1579 Robin Goodfellow1588 elfin1590 pigwidgeon1594 pygmy1611 fairess1674 peri1739 spriggan1754 fane1806 glendoveer1810 vila1827 Polong1839 Gandharva1846 elle-maid1850 sheogue1852 hillman1882 elvet1885 pishogue1906 1852 W. R. Wilde Irish Pop. Superstitions 14 The sheeogue [sic] is the true fairy. 1852 W. R. Wilde Irish Pop. Superstitions 52 The mystic pipers of the sheogues..are said..to favour mortals with their melodies. 1892 W. B. Yeats Countess Kathleen 26 You poured out wine as the wood sheogues do When they'd entice a soul out of the world. 1892 W. B. Yeats Countess Kathleen 50 Brother, where wander all these dwarfish folk, Hostile to men, the sheogues of the tides? 1893 W. B. Yeats Celtic Twilight 117 He would not hear of ghosts or sheogues. 1959 D. A. MacManus Middle Kingdom i. 20 There are the stories of human encounters with the small spirits, the ‘wee folk’ of Ulster, the ‘little people’ of the South, the ‘Shee-og’ of Gaeldom. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1852 |
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