wood-child

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A child that lives in the woods. literary
    — Rob not the Primrose! - for her pallid bloom Long by the wayside tarries, And the wood-child homeward through the deep'ning gloom In its lap, rejoicing, carries.
  2. A Native American or Amerindian. literary,obsolete,offensive
    — And all the elements of earth Obeyed their high behest. And the wood-child trembled as he said, "Alabama" - here we rest.
  3. A fairy or elf that inhabits the woods.
    — A woman who good-naturedly gave her breast to a crying Wood-child, was rewarded by its mother by a gift of the bark on which it was lying.

词形变化

wood-children plural
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