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German house-haunting goblin
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kobold
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kobold \Ko"bold\, n. [G., perh. orig., house god, hose protector. See Cobalt ] A kind of domestic spirit in German mythology, corresponding to the Scottish brownie and the English Robin Goodfellow.
Wiktionary
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alt. 1 (context German mythology English) An ambivalent, sometimes vindictive, spirit that is capable of materialising as an object or human, often a child; a sprite. 2 (context German folklore English) A mischievous elf or goblin, or one connected (and ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Kobolds are a fictional species featured in the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game . Aggressive, xenophobic, yet industrious small humanoid creatures, kobolds are noted for their skill at building traps and preparing ambushes . In the original Dungeons ...
Usage examples of kobold.
He shut himself in his room like some venomous kobold or flibbertigibbet, whining, complaining, cursing, accusing.
I climbed frantically toward his voice, knocking loose the pupal cases of several half-formed kobolds in my haste.
The kobolds, Bunion and Parsnip, trailed after, gnarled bodies skittering along, wizened monkey faces grinning doubtfully, all teeth and sharp angles.
Below it, the pigments gleamed in their jars--ochre, saffron, woad, kobold, beet, reseda, calcimine, koal-absolute potentiality.
Kobolds, gnomes, and trolls lived underground, but he had thought to find the fay in an airier, lighter place.
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.
Kobolds, orcs, gnolls, and other strange creatures of the ruins flocked to the heart of Valjevo Castle, the lair of the Lord of the Ruins.
Below it, the pigments gleamed in their jars--ochre, saffron, woad, kobold, beet, reseda, calcimine, koal-absolute potentiality.
Ixidor opened the kobold blue and the calcimine and mixed up a whole new palette.
Most Unseleighe were born “on the dark side,” so to speak: boggles and banshees, trolls and kobolds.
Up ahead the corridor opened into a wide room, and a group of kobolds scrambled across, chased by a threesome of archers.
Those monsters highest on the face, near the secret position, were overwhelmed, a horde of mighty barbarians descending over them, splitting them in half with huge swords and battle-axes, or simply lifting the kobolds high over head and hurling them down the mountainside.
They swarmed over the kobold and quickly had it enmeshed in a thick, weblike net.
Where had mine kobolds, not even up to making their own mattocks, got such skilled work from?
It was the most emotion I had ever seen from the impassionate little Kobold.