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41 wordies list
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first listed by:
snanderbatch (67 words)
appears in these lists:
otherworldly, by lanas
name calling, by parody
word set 2, by palooka
Gesundheit!, by reesetee
hannah's Words, by hannah
Macabreath, by whichbe
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“The McDonnell F2H Banshee was a military carrier-based jet fighter aircraft, used by the United States Navy from 1948 to 1959 and by the Royal Canadian Navy from 1955 until 1962.” More on Wikipedia.
from "bean sidhe" or "ban sidhe", a fairy woman.
I remember these from "Darby O'Gill and the Little People", a classic movie.
A.K.A. "ban sidh" > Gaelic. A supernatural being supposed by the peasantry of Ireland and the Scottish Highlands to wail under the windows of a house where one of the inmates is about to die.
Usage: "You remember that foul evening when you heard the banshees howl..." --"The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn," c. 1985 Shane Macgowan