English Dictionary

spring-heeled Jack

名詞

歴史的

(historical, folklore) A terrifying man of bizarre appearance and able to make extraordinary leaps, the subject of English folklore of the Victorian era.

日本語の意味

（歴史的・民間伝承）ヴィクトリア朝時代のイギリスに伝わる、恐ろしい風貌と常軌を逸した跳躍力を持つ人物。 / 伝説上の怪人。超人的な跳躍能力により、突如として現れ、人々に畏怖と不安を与える存在。

Late at night, witnesses claimed to have seen spring-heeled Jack leaping from rooftop to rooftop, his eyes gleaming like embers.

夜遅く、目撃者たちはビクトリア朝時代の英伝説に登場する、奇怪な姿で驚異的な跳躍ができる恐ろしい男が屋根から屋根へと飛び移るのを見たと語った。

意味（1）

(historical, folklore) A terrifying man of bizarre appearance and able to make extraordinary leaps, the subject of English folklore of the Victorian era.

And he rattled, thumped, brandished his thunderbox, yelled, shouted, raved, roared, stamped, and danced corrobory like any black fellow; and then he touched a spring in the thunderbox, and out popped turnip-ghosts and magic-lanthorns and pasteboard bogies and spring-heeled Jacks and sallaballas […]

spring-heeled Jacks （ plural ）