poltergeist
英 ['pɒltəgaɪst]
美['poltɚ'gaɪst]
- n. 敲击作响闹恶作剧的鬼
词态变化
复数: poltergeists;
中文词源
poltergeist 促狭鬼
来自德语Poltergeist,吵闹鬼，发出噪音的鬼，来自poltern,发出噪音，沙沙作响，拟声词，Geist,鬼，词源同ghost,zeitgeist.
英文词源
- poltergeist
- poltergeist: [19] A poltergeist is literally a ‘noisy ghost’. The word was borrowed from German in the 19th century, where it is a compound made up of poltern ‘make a noise, rattle or rumble’ and geist ‘spirit, ghost’ (a relative of English ghost).
- poltergeist (n.)
- 1838, from German Poltergeist, literally "noisy ghost," from poltern "make noise, rattle" (from PIE root *bhel- (4) "to sound, ring, roar;" source of bellow, bell) + Geist "ghost" (see ghost). In the native idiom of Northern England, such phenomenon likely would be credited to a boggart.