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hobgoblin

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9 lettersPronunciation /hɒbˈɡɒb.lɪn/Part of speech nounSorted bbghilnooStarts with HEnds with N0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. an object of dread or apprehension

Word origin

From hob (“elf”, from Hob, a variant of Rob, short for Robin Goodfellow, an elf in Germanic folklore) + goblin.

Used in a sentence

  • The eyes blinked out and he heard a faint grunt, followed by the sounds of the Hobgoblin scrambling further back into the tunnel, away from the faint sunlight and the Ur'hunglav's domain.
  • The monster goes unrecognized because he looks like a harmless, pudgy nobody rather than like a hobgoblin. But he reveals his hobgoblin nature through music.
  • A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.

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