Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A giant or goblin.

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Examples

  • I could modernise the spelling to something like ‘ettin’ or ‘etten’, as Tolkien did in Lord of the Rings “...the Ettenmoors, the troll-fells north of Rivendell…”, as Aragorn says in Book I Ch.

    Archive 2010-08-01 Carla 2010

  • I could modernise the spelling to something like ‘ettin’ or ‘etten’, as Tolkien did in Lord of the Rings “...the Ettenmoors, the troll-fells north of Rivendell…”, as Aragorn says in Book I Ch.

    Kings of Lindsey Carla 2010

  • I could modernise the spelling to something like ‘ettin’ or ‘etten’, as Tolkien did in Lord of the Rings “...the Ettenmoors, the troll-fells north of Rivendell…”, as Aragorn says in Book I Ch.

    Kings of Lindsey Carla 2010

  • I could modernise the spelling to something like ‘ettin’ or ‘etten’, as Tolkien did in Lord of the Rings “...the Ettenmoors, the troll-fells north of Rivendell…”, as Aragorn says in Book I Ch.

    Old English gods and myths: Eotens Carla 2010

  • I could modernise the spelling to something like ‘ettin’ or ‘etten’, as Tolkien did in Lord of the Rings “...the Ettenmoors, the troll-fells north of Rivendell…”, as Aragorn says in Book I Ch.

    Kings of Lindsey Carla 2010

  • Hän oli niin loistava seulomaan esiin sen ainokaisen kultajyvän hillittömästä hyödyttömyyksien koskesta, etten voinut olla pitämättä hänestä – tai ainakaan kunnioittamatta häntä.

    Boing Boing: April 16, 2006 - April 22, 2006 Archives 2006

  • 'But we aren't etten yet, and there are some stout folk here with us.

    The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

  • 'Why, I declare, I must have etten it,' says this old lady.

    Women of the Country Gertrude Bone

  • It wasn't Jerry's clog-print on the ashes, it was Amos's; and the Lord had taen away my eldest barn frae me because I'd etten o 'the Tree o'

    More Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895

  • But in anither month, faith, I thocht that she wad hae etten me, an 'afore the year was oot I wussed she had.

    The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887

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