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(Internet slang, humorous) The Grim Reaper.
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(now rare) An evil spirit, the bogeyman, a demon.
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The hero of the Uncle Remus stories.
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(folklore) A mythical creature, a helpful elf who would secretly do people's housework for them.
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(by extension) A man living in the mountains.
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(by extension) A person or object (especially when regarded as inferior) secretly exchanged for something else.
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The main character in this story, a mistreated and impoverished girl. At a royal ball she meets a handsome prince who later identifies her by means of a dropped article, most commonly a slipper, and removes her from her poverty.
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(fantasy fiction, mythology) A king with the ability to control dragons.
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(rare, mythology, countable) A trow; a member of a race of folkloric beings from Orkney and Shetland; cognate to the Scandinavian troll.
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(chiefly Tolkien fandom slang, fantasy) A female of the dwarf race.
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(role-playing games) A giant with two heads.
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(folklore) A little hairy sprite in the folklore of the Isle of Man.
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(mythology) A fictional magical being that is typically bound to obey the commands of a mortal possessing its container.
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The fictional carpenter who created Pinocchio.
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(mythology, fantasy) One of a race of imaginary human-like beings, usually depicted as short and typically bearded males, who inhabit the inner parts of the earth and act as guardians of mines, mineral treasure, etc.; in modern fantasy literature and games, when distinguished from dwarves, gnomes are usually even smaller than dwarves and more focussed on engineering than mining.
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(nonce word) Inhabited by gnomes.
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The world or realm of gnomes.
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(fantasy) All gnomes, considered as a group.
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The use of gnomes (maxims)
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To transform into a goblin.
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A person who bears the traits or has the characteristics of Gollum in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.
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Of, or pertaining to, Edward Gorey.
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(mythology) A monster or giant slain by Beowulf in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem.
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A German fairy tale, recorded by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812, about the siblings named Hansel and Gretel who are threatened by a cannibalistic witch who lives in a house made of cake and bread.
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Of or relating to hobbits.
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The world of hobbits; hobbits collectively.
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(by extension) Any oppressive thing or person; a burden.
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A fictional man who appears as a ghost in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, warning his former business partner Ebenezer Scrooge against being greedy and selfish.
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Alternative form of jumbie [(chiefly Caribbean) A ghost or evil spirit.]
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In Greek and Cypriot culture, a traditional Yuletide gift-bearing character, resembling a goblin.
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A kind of fairy in Basque mythology, related to the Little People in Celtic lore.
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The girl who is the protagonist and title character in this story.
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A male witch; a warlock.
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(fantasy) A mermaid dog.
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(fantasy, informal) A young merperson.
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A legendary creature, human male from the waist up, fishlike from the waist down.
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A merman or mermaid in Scottish and Irish Gaelic folklore.
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Alternative spelling of mumbo jumbo [(historical) A deity or other supernatural being said to have been worshipped by certain West African peoples; an idol.]
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(very rare, chiefly humorous) Alternative spelling of men (plural of man) [(collective) (The) people, humanity, man(kind).]
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In Igbo folklore, an evil spirit that is born into a family to bring them misfortune.
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Any of the fictional dwarves who manufacture candy and sarcastically dispense songs of advice in Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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All orcs, considered as a group.
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Alternative form of auf [(obsolete) A changeling or elf child; a child left by fairies.]
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A mythological giant lumberjack.
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The popular fairy tale about Pinocchio.
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(mythology, fantasy literature, fairy tales) Alternative form of pixie (supernatural being): A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature. [(mythology, fantasy literature, fairy tales) A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature.]
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A German fairy tale about a girl imprisoned in a tower who lets down her long hair for a rescuer to climb.
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Characteristic of Rapunzel, especially in having very long hair.
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(fantasy) Anyone who keeps a magical ring, and is enslaved thereby, and may also be rendered invisible and immortal thereby.
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(fiction, US) A Dutch-American villager who falls asleep for 20 years and wakes up to a changed world, having missed the American Revolution; (by extension) someone or something stuck in the past.
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(mythology) Puck (the mischievous sprite)
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A fairy tale about a dwarf who saves the miller’s daughter by spinning straw into gold in exchange for her first-born child, but is foiled when she guesses his name.
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Alternative spelling of Rumpelstiltskin [A fairy tale about a dwarf who saves the miller’s daughter by spinning straw into gold in exchange for her first-born child, but is foiled when she guesses his name.]
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(folklore) A figure that brings sleep and dreams by sprinkling magical sand into people's eyes.
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The fictional character Ebenezer Scrooge.
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(figuratively) A woman whose bad temper, cruelty or wicked ways are so extreme as to evoke an image of the devil.
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The main character in this story, who is in unbroken slumber under a magical spell, awaiting the kiss of a prince.
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(comics, fiction) A blue pixie with white stocking cap, from the media franchise The Smurfs.
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A female fairy tale character with magical power over snow and ice.
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The main character in that story.
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Having the traits of a succubus.
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(slang, derogatory) Of, related to, or characteristic of the Tea Party movement.
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(fantasy, role-playing games) A member of a race of beings having a combination of human and demonic ancestry, found especially in Dungeons & Dragons.
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A poor disabled boy whose death is ultimately averted by Ebenezer Scrooge in the classic tale A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
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A fairy-tale character who is the size of a person's thumb; the protagonist and hero of the fairy tale The History of Tom Thumb.
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(fiction, fantasy, rare) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of an elf.
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(folklore) A female ghost dressed in white, who is associated with local legends of tragedy.
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(fantasy, Wicca) A young witch.
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(folklore, mythology) Any of various supernatural monsters, sometimes shapeshifters, in Japanese folklore.
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