Home
Random
Log in
Settings
Donations
About Wiktionary
Disclaimers
Search
yuki-onna
Language
Watch
Edit
See also:
yukionna
English
edit
English
Wikipedia
has an article on:
yuki-onna
Wikipedia
Etymology
edit
Borrowed from
Japanese
雪女
(
yukionna
)
.
Noun
edit
yuki
-
onna
(
plural
yuki-onna
)
Japanese
snow
spirit
; the spirit of a
woman
who
perished
out in the snow during the
winter
months
, said to return during the winter months to lure
lost souls
to their
deaths
.
Categories
:
English terms borrowed from Japanese
English terms derived from Japanese
English lemmas
English nouns
English countable nouns
English indeclinable nouns
English nouns with irregular plurals
English multiword terms
en:Mythological creatures
Hidden categories:
English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys
English entries with topic categories using raw markup
Pages with 1 entry