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Kid-lit thief
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grinch
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Word definitions for grinch in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Grinch is a fictional character created by Dr. Seuss . He first appeared as the main character of the 1957 Christmas story How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The grumpy, anti-holiday spirit of the character has led to the term "Grinch", which is probably ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"spoilsport;" all usages trace to Dr. Seuss' 1957 book "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A grouch or killjoy. 2 A person who aggressively sets out to ruin the Christmas holidays for others.
Usage examples of grinch.
It was like the Whos down in Who-ville being happy to see the Grinch before he’d reformed his wicked ways.
They were onto the Grinch by then, the floor around them scattered with popcorn and broken crackers.
On screen the Grinch covered his ears against the sound of villagers caroling.
In a flash all the kids, even the older ones, deserted Jim Carrey and the Grinch and gathered around the man in red.
If the hideous arachnid in my mind's eye was the fault of just my dad and my diet, then my imagination would have conjured not a simple spider but an image of the grinning Grinch climbing toward me.
As I hung motionless on the ladder, the grinning Grinch rapidly became an inexpressibly more terrifying image than any spider could have been, until another hard crash boomed through the building, shaking me back to reality.
Daring the maw of spider or Grinch, I went down one more story, to the next opening in the shaft.