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plat-eyes

plat-eyes is the plural of plat-eye.

Meaning of plat-eye

Noun

plat-eye (plural plat-eyes)

  1. A mythical monster or ghost in the folklore of the West Indies and southern United States; it is a being with large, glowing eyes, capable of shapeshifting and sometimes depicted as a phantom bound to a particular place, such as a cave or grove, as a guardian (for buried treasure, etc).
    • De ole folks is talk bout Plat-eye. Dey say dey takes shape ob all kind de critter1985, Charles Joyner, quoting Maum Addie, interviewed by Genevieve Willcox Chandler c. 1938, Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community, page 152

Questions about plat-eyes

What is plat-eyes the plural of?
Plat-eyes is the plural of plat-eye.

Words near plat-eyes in the dictionary

  1. plastrons
  2. plastrum
  3. plat
  4. plat du jour
  5. plat-eye
  6. plat-eyes
  7. Plata
  8. platable
  9. platacanthomyid
  10. platacanthomyids
  11. Plataea

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