comprachicoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

comprachico (複数形 comprachicos)

1. (folklore) A person who deliberately mutilates a growing child in order to induce freakish physical traits.
   • 1969, Günther Weisenborn, The Man Without a Face (page 10)

     But here in England a comprachico is equal to a murderer, a candidate for the hangman's noose.

   • 2016, George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus

     He is angry and equips himself accordingly—with a penknife to give the offender a comprachico countenance, a mirror to show him the effect, and a pair of nailed boots to give him his dismissal.