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the small ugly menace that proved chaos doesn't need to be tall to ruin you
means a small, grotesque, mischievous or malevolent creature of folklore, given to greed, trickery, and petty malice.
from From Old French 'gobelin,' a name recorded for a spirit said to haunt the region around Évreux. The deeper root is uncertain: it's often linked to Medieval Latin 'gobelinus,' and possibly tangled up with Greek 'kobalos' (a rogue or mischievous sprite) — the same source that may lurk behind German 'Kobold' and even, distantly, the metal 'cobalt,' named by miners for the troublesome 'goblin' ore they blamed for poisoning them.
- old roots
- name traces to Greek kobalos, a mischief-making sprite
- folklore job
- blamed for everything missing or mysteriously broken
- market famous
- a Victorian poem warned never to eat their fruit
- modern verb
- goblin mode entered Oxford as 2022's word
- sleep variant
- the hobgoblin haunted hearths and hid in chimneys
goblin shark — deep-sea shark species discovered in 1898 off japan, only about 50 specimens ever caught
green goblin — spider-man villain created by stan lee in 1964, arch-nemesis of peter parker
labyrinth goblin king — character played by david bowie in 1986 jim henson film, rules the goblin city