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Spinner of tales
Answer for the clue "Spinner of tales ", 15 letters:
rumpelstiltskin
Alternative clues for the word rumpelstiltskin
- Grimm brothers fairy tale
- Name to guess
- Tells a woman he will not hold her to a promise if she can guess his name and when she discovers it he is so furious that he destroys himself
- A dwarf in one of the fairy stories of the brothers Grimm
- Dwarf able to spin flax into gold
- Noted spinner
- Dwarf who wove flax into gold
- Grimm tale
- One who spun gold from straw
Word definitions for rumpelstiltskin in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1840, from German Rumpelstilzchen . The German form of the name is used in English from 1828.
Usage examples of rumpelstiltskin.
Gladys and the king lived happily ever aftter, and Rumpelstiltskin was never seen in the kingdom again.
Listening to the dog padding back and forth on the porch, she rose into the Rumpelstiltskin crouch that the burdening chair imposed.