| 释义 |
Definition of duppy in English: duppynounPlural duppies ˈdʌpiˈdəpē West Indian A malevolent spirit or ghost. 〈西印度〉恶鬼，妖精 Example sentencesExamples - African and Afro-Creole Jamaicans believed that each person has a dual spirit: one, the duppy that left the body on death and returned to its ancestral lands, and the other, known as the shadow, that accompanied a human being during life.
- It's a hassle, but not as much hassle as having a homeless angry duppy on your back, and not being in a position to know what it is or what to do with it.
- Children should not cry during the night though, because a duppy might steal the infant's voice, making it hoarse the next day.
- Many folk beliefs involve methods for keeping ghosts, or duppies, from returning to haunt living people.
- To dispel my disappointment and any Irish duppies - ghosts - that might be hovering about we attacked the three hours scramble to the summit of Blue Mountain Peak.
- How you would go about facilitating their removal is dependent on the personality of the duppy, and requires a degree of diagnostic work.
- ‘Mother’ told her that she had triumphed over the duppy.
- He never had the proper voodoo rituals, and now his duppy is raging, has been all year.
Synonyms apparition, spectre, phantom, hallucination, ghost, wraith, shadow, manifestation, chimera, illusion, mirage, image
OriginLate 18th century: probably of West African origin. Definition of duppy in US English: duppynounˈdəpē West Indian A malevolent spirit or ghost. 〈西印度〉恶鬼，妖精 Example sentencesExamples - It's a hassle, but not as much hassle as having a homeless angry duppy on your back, and not being in a position to know what it is or what to do with it.
- Many folk beliefs involve methods for keeping ghosts, or duppies, from returning to haunt living people.
- To dispel my disappointment and any Irish duppies - ghosts - that might be hovering about we attacked the three hours scramble to the summit of Blue Mountain Peak.
- He never had the proper voodoo rituals, and now his duppy is raging, has been all year.
- Children should not cry during the night though, because a duppy might steal the infant's voice, making it hoarse the next day.
- African and Afro-Creole Jamaicans believed that each person has a dual spirit: one, the duppy that left the body on death and returned to its ancestral lands, and the other, known as the shadow, that accompanied a human being during life.
- ‘Mother’ told her that she had triumphed over the duppy.
- How you would go about facilitating their removal is dependent on the personality of the duppy, and requires a degree of diagnostic work.
Synonyms apparition, spectre, phantom, hallucination, ghost, wraith, shadow, manifestation, chimera, illusion, mirage, image
OriginLate 18th century: probably of West African origin. |