Noun

(en noun)

(fantasy literature) A mythical malevolent phantom or grotesque diminutive humanoid; a kobold.

* 1872', , ''The Princess and the '''Goblin , page 50,

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* 2006 , Charlotte Bishop, Norty: The Chosen Ones , page 187,

At last the goblins' had a chance to rid themselves of one of the troublesome defenders, and two ' goblin warriors snatched the opportunity.

* 2010 , Thom L. Nichols, War: Return of the Elves , Part 1, page 37,

The goblin shifted the two younger ones closer to him. It looked like he was hiding behind them, using them as a shield.

The goblin looked pure evil. His eyes were brown.

* 2010', D. S. Macleod, ''The Middle Times: Rise of the '''Goblin King , page 229,

I shall send another entourage of goblins' back here to Desput with the '''goblins'''’ new ally the Pixy! These creatures deserve the same respect as any other ' goblin .

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Snakes and ladders , passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins . For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.}}

Noun

Noun

(wolves)

A large wild canid of certain subspecies of Canis lupus .

A man who makes amorous advances on many women.

(music) A wolf tone or wolf note; an unpleasant tone produced when a note matches the natural resonating frequency of the body of a musical instrument, the quality of which may be likened to the howl of a wolf.

One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.

(figurative) Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.

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, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“

A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.

(obsolete) An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.

* Jeremy Taylor

If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf into thy side.

A willying machine.

(Knight)

(Webster 1913)