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Перевод: hobgoblin

[существительное]
домовой ; пугало; чертенок

Тезаурус:

1. Also known as hobmen, the name hobgoblin is thought to be a corruption of "Rob-goblin", i.e. Robin Goodfellow, or PUCK.
2. A Herefordshire hobgoblin would avenge himself for any insult by stealing all the family's keys and refusing to return them until his favourite cake had been baked and left on the hob for him to eat.
3. I decide that whoever this hobgoblin is, her business is with Jamie and not with me.
4. Umberto, snoring in the tack room, barricaded against ghoul and hobgoblin by one of the feedbins, was woken to a punishing hangover by the increasingly irritated din of muzzled horses kicking their water buckets.
5. muffled hobgoblin in Wellingtons and peaked hood
6. A species of BOGEY-BEAST or mischievous HOBGOBLIN which has horns, claws, pointed fangs and blood-red eyes.
7. Lewis Edwards tells of someone who wanted to break up the Hobgoblin Stone (Carreg-y-Bucci) in Wales for gateposts.
8. I am, of course, conscious that, as a convert to some important aspects of European integration, I risk being impeached for a lack of consistency; however, I am always happy to recall the words of Ralph Emerson, who said:" A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statemen and philosophers and divines."
9. Those that hobgoblin call you, and sweet Puck
10. A mischievous HOBGOBLIN who preys on disobedient children and keeps them away from harm; hence water bogies frighten children from pools, garden bogies deter them from trampling flower-beds.
11. Hobgoblin