freet

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A superstitious notion or belief with respect to any action or event as a good or a bad omen; a superstition.
    — If the old “freet” be true “ that those who fall when at the handspake aneath the corpse, will soon be the corpse themsell," there would soon be a good few corspes; for at these "druken" concerns, the bearers are falling some of them every now and then.
  2. A superstitious rite, observance, wont, or practice.
    — Oh, sister Ellen, sister sweet, Come with me to the hill I pray, And I will prove that blessed freet!
  3. A charm.

词形变化

freets plural fret alternative freit alternative,Scotland

词汇关系

衍生词
freety

词源

From Middle English frete (“superstition”), from Old Norse frétt (“news, intelligence, inquiry, inquiry about the future”), from Proto-Germanic *frihtiz (“news, report, message, question, prophecy”), related to Icelandic frétt (“news”), Icelandic frétta (“to review”), Danish and Norwegian fritte (“to question, interrogate”), English frain (“to question”). More at frain.
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