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Hobgoblin

noun
1.
(folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings.  Synonyms: goblin, hob.
2.
An object of dread or apprehension.  Synonym: bugbear.  "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"






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"Hobgoblin" Quotes from Famous Books



... beggar. Bluid, blood. Bluidy, bloody. Blume, to bloom. Bluntie, a stupid. Blypes, shreds. Bobbed, curtsied. Bocked, vomited. Boddle, a farthing. Bode, look for. Bodkin, tailor's needle. Body, bodie, a person. Boggie, dim. of bog. Bogle, a bogie, a hobgoblin. Bole, a hole, or small recess in the wall. Bonie, bonnie, pretty, beautiful. Bonilie, prettily. Bonnock, v. Bannock. 'Boon, above. Boord, board, surface. Boord-en', board-end. Boortress, elders. Boost, must needs. Boot, ...
— Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns • Robert Burns

... slip of the pen was that! How absurd in me to talk about burying the bones of Byron, who, I have just seen alive, and incased in a big, round bulk of flesh! But, to say the truth, a prodigiously fat man always impresses me as a kind of hobgoblin; in the very extravagance of his mortal system I find something akin to the immateriality of a ghost. And then that ridiculous old story darted into my mind, how that Byron died of fever at Missolonghi, above ...
— P.'s Correspondence (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") • Nathaniel Hawthorne



Words linked to "Hobgoblin" :   hob, object, folklore, evil spirit



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