killcrop

Mar. 19th, 2010 07:34 am
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killcrop (KIL-krop) - n., an insatiable infant, particularly one believed to be a fairy changeling.


It eats and eats and never grow or gets fatter and it's always crying and hungry and I can't take it any more and oh my god it can't be my baby --- IT'S A CHANGELING! From German, and the changeling part from Germnn folklore, adopted in the 17th century from kielkropf, of uncertain origin.

---L.

Date: 2010-03-19 03:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stillnotbored.livejournal.com
I really need to remember this word...

Date: 2010-03-19 04:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] al-rants.livejournal.com
I am ashamed to say that, as much reading as I have done concerning faerie mythos from around the world, I've never encountered this word. Thank you for that!

Date: 2010-03-19 06:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] prettygoodword.livejournal.com
No worries -- the native German in the cubicle across from me didn't know this one either.

---L.

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