Ghoulとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• ghole

語源

Borrowed from French goule, from Persian غول (ġul) from Arabic غُول (ḡūl).

発音

• IPA: /ɡuːl/, /ɡʊəl/
• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA: /ɡʉl/
• (Indic) IPA: /ɡul/, (learned) /ɣul/; (spelling pronunciation) /ɡʱul/
• 韻: -uːl

名詞

ghoul (plural ghouls)

1. (mythology) A demon said to feed on corpses.
   • 1927, H.P. Lovecraft, Pickman's Model‎:

     The other chamber had shown a pack of ghouls and witches over-running the world of our forefathers, but this one brought the horror right into our own daily life!.

   • 1962, “Monster Mash”, Bobby "Boris" Pickett and Lenny Capizzi (lyrics), performed by Bobby (Boris) Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers:

     From my laboratory in the Castle east
     To the master bedroom, where the vampires feast
     The ghouls all came from their humble abodes
     To get a jolt from my electrodes
     They did the Mash
     They did the Monster Mash.

2. A graverobber.
   • 1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 38:

     Police went to the cemetery at Trafalgar, near Yallourn, and discovered that a woman's body had been stolen from a grave. They were satisfied it was the same body found at Yallourn - but made no progress in running down the ghouls responsible for the outrage.

3. A person with an undue interest in death and corpses, or more generally in things that are revolting and repulsive.
4. (derogatory, colloquial) A person with a callous or uncaring attitude to human life and suffering, particularly when prioritizing economic concerns.
   • 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 195:

     Restored to bumptiousness, Peter arrived jauntily in the kitchen, to survey Mrs Dibble's body as a spectacle new to him, and remark, "So the old trout's done herself in properly this time, I'm told. About time she did, the way she's been going on here." "Shut up, you old ghoul, and help Dr Grimsby to carry her upstairs."

派生語

関連する語

• (demon) Algol
• (graverobber) resurrection man, resurrectionist, body snatcher

関連する語

• jinn
• jann
• nasnas
• shaitan
• angel

派生した語

• Portuguese: ghoul

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “ghoul”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

アナグラム

• Lough, lough