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kabouter

Definitions

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  • noun Dutch mythology A tiny folkloric man who traditionally wears a pointy red hat, lives in harmony with nature and resides in mushrooms, similar to a gnome, leprechaun or a smurf.

Etymologies

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From Dutch kabouter - gnome

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Examples

  • When he heard of any old fellow, who wanted to save the cost of candles, he would get a kabouter to lead him off in the swamps, where the sooty elves come out, on dark nights, to dance.

    Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks William Elliot Griffis 1885

  • He had hardly got the question out of his mouth, when in walked a kabouter, all smutty with blacksmith work.

    Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks William Elliot Griffis 1885

  • Seeing the day breaking, she and Trintje and the kabouter flew away, so as not to be petrified by the sunrise.

    Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks William Elliot Griffis 1885

  • The kabouter took the wood and shaped it on the outside.

    Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks William Elliot Griffis 1885

  • Yet he often helped the kabouter dwarfs to do great things; so that showed he was of some use.

    Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks William Elliot Griffis 1885

  • He shook his finger at a kabouter girl, that was flirting with a handsome lad near her.

    Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks William Elliot Griffis 1885

  • The kabouter at once got out his saw, hatchet, auger, long, chisel-like knife, and smoothing plane.

    Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks William Elliot Griffis 1885

  • The big boys and girls, in the kabouter kingdom, are not much over a foot high.

    Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks William Elliot Griffis 1885

  • Now when the kabouter daddies began the roaring fires for the making of the bells, the little mothers and the small fry in the kabouter world could not afford to be idle.

    Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks William Elliot Griffis 1885

  • One, a kabouter, dark and ugly, had a box of tools.

    Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks William Elliot Griffis 1885

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