bibe

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A type of banshee whose cry indicates someone's impending death. Ireland,Newfoundland
    — "[…] But when Jack lies on his low death-bed, with the clammy dews standing on his brow, the moaning bibe combing her yellow locks, and singing the death-wail at his casement, then will this, and all poor Delaney's other actions, appear to his darkening eye in their true colours."

词形变化

bibes plural

词源

Borrowed from Irish badhb, a variant of badhbh.
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