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moss-people en · NOUN

Etymology

Calque of German Moosleute.

Meanings

  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:
    • A loan or gift to the Moss-people was always repaid manifold. 1920, Lewis Spence, An Encyclopædia of Occultism, London: George Routledge and Sons, page 280, column 2:
    • A loan or gift to the Moss-people was always repaid manifold. 1978, Katharine M. Briggs, The Vanishing People, London: B.T. Batsford, page 76: