| 单词 | tokoloshe |
| 释义 | ‖ tokoloshe S. Afr.|ˌtɔkəˈlɔʃɪ|
Also thikoloshe, tikolosh(e), tokolosh, etc.
[Sotho thokolosi, t(h)ikoloshi, Xhosa uThikoloshe, Zulu utokoloshe.]
In African folklore, a mischievous and lascivious hairy dwarf.
1833S. Kay Trav. in Caffraria xiii. 339 Tikaloshi also is much more frequently and familiarly talked about than amongst the more southern tribes. 1894E. Glanville Fair Colonist 82 Tikoloshe is supposed to be an evil spirit which takes the shape of a small man. 1911Daily Dispatch (E. London, S. Afr.) 24 Nov. 7 One might be dragged into the watery den of the tikolosh. 1927W. Plomer Notes for Poems 30 The water spirits laughed at her, my friends the tokoloshes. 1949Handbk. Race Relations in S. Afr. 561 The most widely believed in amongst many Nguni tribes is thikoloshe. 1959L. G. Green These Wonders to Behold 22 Witchcraft has never lost its grip on the African native. Wherever you go, from Algiers to Cape Town..you will find black millions who are still ruled by the fear of djinns and demons,..ngogwe and tokoloshe. 1972Country Life 10 Feb. 348/2, I was looking at a modern bronze..of a Tokoloshe, a Bantu evil spirit. 1974Stand. Encycl. S. Afr. X. 504/2 The tikolosh (or tokolosh) is believed to be a dwarfish being, pitch-black, with a hairy body and baboon-like face..half-human and half-animal, having only one buttock, while the male has an enormous sexual organ. |
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