jab molassie

名词 n.
英 /ˈd͡ʒæb məˈlæsiː/    美 /ˈd͡ʒæb məˈlæsi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A traditional character in the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival dressed as a devil, mostly naked and covered in molasses or grease and a colourful dye. Trinidad-and-Tobago
    — A second masquerade character used in the play was the Jab Molassi, or molasses devil. At carnival he is the leaping, prancing masker, his body daubed with black or blue paint, sometimes with molasses, who threatens to besmear spectators unless they pay him off.

词形变化

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词源

Borrowed from Antillean Creole jab (“devil”) (from French diable (“devil”)) + molassie (“molasses”) (from French mélasse (“molasses; treacle”)).
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