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Meaning of goblin in English
(Definition of goblin from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
goblin | American Dictionary
Examples of goblin
goblin
The former reading entails the existence of goblins, if the quantifier carries the presupposition that its restriction is non-empty.
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But what do ugly goblins and formless monsters have to do with realism?
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I held her on high - the goblin!
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It is more in the nature of goblin fruit.
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If you kept bogies and goblins away from children, they would make them up for themselves.
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I do not think goblins are relevant to this discussion.
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The retail price index looks so simple and natural, but it is goblin fruit.
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The old man went to his third and largest stall to summon his mightiest goblins.
South is the land of goblins, followed by the land of dragons.
He is then beset by goblins, and while he is frantically searching for a way out, he comes upon the wind crystal.
They have sly, sneaky, goblin-like faces, and long, thin, claw-like fingers.
They often make up the elite of a goblin army and are prized as bodyguards.
However, she has a mortal fear of water, since her fox bead (which houses her life energy or qi) is made from goblin fire.
The players start as a small tribe of goblins, progress through an assortment of monsters, and end the adventure by playing undead.
They include the goblin shark, basking shark, megamouth shark, the thresher sharks, shortfin and longfin mako sharks, and great white shark.
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cin, gulyabani…
lutin…
kwelgeest…
skřítek…
nisse, trold…
setan…
ปีศาจ…
yêu tinh…
chochlik…
troll, svartalf…
goblin…
der Kobold…
nisse, troll…
гоблін…
гоблин, домовой…