| 单词 | sky fairy |
| 释义 | > as lemmassky fairy sky fairy n. (a) (in various mythologies or fairy tales) a type of fairy said to inhabit the sky (typically as contrasted with one living underground, in the water, or on land); (b) slang (derogatory) a god, regarded as a simplistic or unscientific explanation for the creation of the universe, the laws of nature, or the events and circumstances affecting people's lives. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > fairy or elf > [noun] > specific types of colt-pixie1542 shelly-coat1802 night-rider1856 airy fairy1863 sky fairy1876 couril1889 the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] godeOE deityc1374 higher powerc1384 princec1384 divinityc1386 governorc1400 powerc1425 numen1495 fear1535 heaven1554 godheada1586 godhood1586 landlorda1635 supreme1643 supercelestial1652 supernal1661 universality1681 father1820 unspeakable1843 Molimo1861 Mlimo1897 superperson1907 somebody up there1972 sky fairy1997 1876 W. W. Gill Myths & Songs from S. Pacific xi. 264 Like those of the nether world, the heavenly fairies are wondrously skilled in ball-throwing... [Ngaru, the hero] actually beat the nether and the sky fairies at their own game, which he afterwards introduced to this world. 1918 L. F. Baum Tin Woodman of Oz xi. 146 I realize that my own fairy magic cannot do it, although I have thought that we Sky Fairies have more power than is accorded to Earth Fairies. 1997 alt.atheism 28 Sept. (Usenet newsgroup, accessed 28 Sept. 2020) When are you assholes going to start taking responsibility for your personal preferences and distastes instead of laying the blame at the doorstep of that hallucinatory sky-fairy you suck up to. 2017 Courier Mail (Austral.) (Nexis) 4 Apr. 22 Children, left to their own developmental devices, don't tend to discriminate on the basis of gender, or which version of sky fairy their playmates' families may subscribe to. < as lemmas |
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