reddleman

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A ruddleman.
    — You little children think there's only one cuckoo, one fox, one giant, one devil, and one reddleman, when there's lots of us all.
  2. A bogeyman archaic
    — A child’s first sight of a reddleman was an epoch in his life. That blood-coloured figure was a sublimation of all the horrible dreams which had afflicted the juvenile spirit since imagination began. ‘The reddleman is coming for you!’ had been the formulated threat of Wessex mothers for many generations.

词形变化

reddlemen plural

词源

Etymology tree
English reddle
English -man
English reddleman
From reddle + -man.
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