Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An often mischievous household elf in German folklore.
- noun A gnome that haunts underground places in German folklore.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Germany, an elemental spirit, or nature-spirit of the earth, corresponding to this element as undines, sylphs, and salamanders respectively correspond to water, air, and fire; a gnome or goblin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of domestic spirit in German mythology, corresponding to the Scottish brownie and the English Robin Goodfellow.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
mischievous elf , or anevil spirit ; agoblin . - noun fantasy One of a diminutive and usually evil race of beings.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Cobalt-based colours and pigments have been used since ancient times for jewellery and paints, and miners have long used the name kobold ore for some minerals.
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Apparently some creature called a kobold escaped from wherever my grandfather trapped it, and it has teamed up with Milo.
Master of Mirrors Amanda Marrone 2011
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Apparently some creature called a kobold escaped from wherever my grandfather trapped it, and it has teamed up with Milo.
Master of Mirrors Amanda Marrone 2011
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FWIW, the problem I reported last week about van. pydeb is actually a toolchain issue, reproducible only with svn-buildpackage, I've forwarded all debugging info to kobold which is working on it ...
Planet Debian Stefano Zacchiroli 2009
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“Actually, yes,” the kobold stated matter-of-factly.
Master of Mirrors Amanda Marrone 2011
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“The kobold,” Darcy whispered with a quaking voice.
Master of Mirrors Amanda Marrone 2011
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The kobold gasped and pointed to the third mirror.
Master of Mirrors Amanda Marrone 2011
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The kobold rushed toward Milo and pushed him into the shard.
Master of Mirrors Amanda Marrone 2011
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The kobold was sitting on a small three-legged stool at the bottom of the platform, with an open book in his lap.
Master of Mirrors Amanda Marrone 2011
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Encase it in salt with a capture spell, and the kobold will be trapped again.
Master of Mirrors Amanda Marrone 2011
bilby commented on the word kobold
Related to cobalt.
November 23, 2007
treeseed commented on the word kobold
1 : a gnome that in German folklore inhabits underground places
2 : an often mischievous domestic spirit of German folklore
January 25, 2008
jaime_d commented on the word kobold
From "Au Tombeau de Charles Fourier" by Guy Davenport
January 19, 2010