This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience. Learn more

Another word for hobgoblin

a-z
Noun
      1. A giant or monster in legends and fairy tales that eats humans.
      2. A person who is felt to be particularly cruel, brutish, or hideous.
      1. The spirit of a dead person, especially one that is believed to appear to the living in bodily form or to haunt specific locations.
      2. A person's spirit or soul:
      3. A returning or haunting memory or image.
      1. A mischievous child.
      2. A small demon.
      3. A graft.
    See also:

    fairy

    bugbear

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • The cavern locally known as Hobgoblin Hall is described in Marmion, and is associated with all kinds of manifestations of the black art.

  • In 1731, being then the property of Mr. Coke, he was teazer to Hobgoblin, and on the latter refusing his services to Roxana, the mare was put to the Godolphin, and the produce was Lath (1732), the first of his get, and the most celebrated race-horse of his day after Flying Childers.

  • Also mouth blown uilleann pipe practice chanter as used to be supplied by hobgoblin.

  • foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds " .

  • hobgoblin of little minds.

More sentences →

Words that mention hobgoblin in the Dictionary

Words near hobgoblin in the Thesaurus