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moss-people

moss-people noun: moss-folk.

Noun

moss-people pl (plural only)

  1. (Germanic, plural, plural-only) moss-folk
    • In Southern Germany they believe in a species of beings somewhat like the Dwarfs, called Wild, Wood, Timber, and Moss-people.1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 230
    • Happy they so visited, for loan or gift to the Moss-people was always repaid manifold !1874, Archibald Maclaren, The Fairy Family, London: Macmilland and Co., page 29

Origin of moss-people

Calque of German Moosleute.

Questions about moss-people

What does moss-people mean?
Moss-people means moss-folk.
What part of speech is moss-people?
Moss-people is a noun.

Words near moss-people in the dictionary

  1. moss-grown
  2. moss-hag
  3. moss-hags
  4. moss-maiden
  5. moss-maidens
  6. moss-people
  7. moss-trooper
  8. moss-troopers
  9. moss-trooping
  10. moss-woman
  11. moss-women

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