sandman

FREQ #20493

n. 睡魔

发音

UK /ˈsænd.mæn/
US /ˈsænd.mæn/

词形变化

sandmen 复数 sandmen

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A figure that brings sleep and dreams by sprinkling magical sand into people's eyes.

    艺术 媒体
  2. 2.

    Used as a symbol of the passage of time toward death.

  3. 3.

    A seller of sand.

    废旧

词汇关系

名词

上位词 7

elf brownie pixie imp gremlin pixy hob

词源

From sand + -man. The mythological sense may be from German Sandmann, Sandmännchen, as it is apparently first attested in English in the context of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s novella The Sandman (1816). The German is attested in the relevant sense since at least the mid-18th century.

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