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leprechaun
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Dada came in last, a frozen leprechaun he never wore an overcoat. ▪ Interactivity: The sign promises luck should you rub the head of a certain fiberglass leprechaun . ▪ Ken also played a man selling luminous leprechauns and a ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A leprechaun is a type of fairy in Irish folklore. They are usually depicted as little bearded men, wearing a coat and hat, who partake in mischief. They are solitary creatures who spend their time making and mending shoes and have a hidden pot of gold ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from Irish lupracan , metathesis from Old Irish luchorpan literally "a very small body," from lu "little" (from PIE *legwh- "having little weight;" see light (adj.)) + corpan , diminutive of corp "body," from Latin corpus "body" (see corporeal ). ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context Irish folklore English) One of a race of elf that can reveal hidden treasure to those who catch them.
Usage examples of leprechaun.
If you can produce those, Junco, I shall believe in leprechauns, genies, and brown-eyed goddesses.
I was just lowering the heel of the pint when I saw the citizen getting up to waddle to the door, puffing and blowing with the dropsy, and he cursing the curse of Cromwell on him, bell, book and candle in Irish, spitting and spatting out of him and Joe and little Alf round him like a leprechaun trying to peacify him.
It falls into the category of other mythological creatures like unicorns, hippogriffs, beatniks, leprechauns, elves and Governor George Wallace.
Brewster came from, so Brewster had not connected it with leprechauns.
Aside from the fact that Mick became hopelessly confused, by the time Brewster was finished, the leprechaun believed more firmly than ever that Brewster was not only a master sorcerer, but quite possibly one of the greatest wizards of all time.
I plugged away at the leprechaun study, lining up values for my variables so I could get rolling on the crystal-ball prognostications maybe next week.
He loved the stories that the shanachies, the traveling storytellers, recited of the leprechauns and the little folk, and he believed in the fairies, who lived on the mist-shrouded Crieve Mountain nearby.
He told him stories of Ireland, of shanachies and leprechauns and rainbows.
We are greeted by barking dogs and what can only be described as a seriously inbred Lapp leprechaun.
Nymphs held little power over the Tylwyth Teg, the leprechaun knew, for the elven folk were not taken by enchantments and illusions as easily as were humans.
They brought me, and Loki and Thor, Anansi and the Lion-God, Leprechauns and Kobolds and Banshees, Kubera and Frau Holle and Ashtaroth, and they brought you.
Somebody, it seemed, was proposing to schlep leprechauns over from the Auld Sod in hiberniation, revive them once they got here, and establish a colony in Angels City.
If the Chumash Powers were still around, hanging by a metaphorical fingernail, would bringing in leprechauns rob them of the tiny measure of devotion they needed to survive?
The people who wanted to import leprechauns in carpetload lots and the folk who were convinced bringing in even one wee fellow would disrupt the local thecosystem would both be preparing their own models and running them under crystal balls.
The lazy part of me was still hoping to get away with running only one set of projections for the thecological impact of leprechauns on the Barony of Angels.