different between goblin vs ouphe

English

Etymology

From Middle English gobelyn, from Old Northern French gobelin (compare Norman goubelin, Walloon gobelin), possibly a blend of Old Dutch *kobeholdo (“goblin”) (compare Dutch kabouter, German Kobold) and Late Latin cobalus (“mountain sprite”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (kóbalos, “rogue, knave; goblin”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /???b.l?n/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /???b.l?n/
• Homophone: GOBLin

Noun

goblin (plural goblins)

1. One of various hostile supernatural creatures, now especially (fantasy literature) a malevolent and grotesque diminutive humanoid, often associated with orcs or trolls.
   • c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):

     From y? hagg & hungry Goblin,
     y? into raggs would rend yee,
     & y? spirit y? stand’s by y? naked man,
     in y? booke of moones defend yee

   • 1872, George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin, page 50,

     " […] If he had struck a stroke more to the side just here," said the goblin, tapping the very stone, as it seemed to Curdie, against which his head lay, "he would have been through; but he's a couple of yards past it now, and if he follow the lode it will be a week before it leads him in. […] "

   • 2006, Charlotte Bishop, Norty: The Chosen Ones, page 187,

     At last the goblins had a chance to rid themselves of one of the troublesome defenders, and two goblin warriors snatched the opportunity.

   • 2010, Thom L. Nichols, War: Return of the Elves, Part 1, page 37,

     The goblin shifted the two younger ones closer to him. It looked like he was hiding behind them, using them as a shield.

     The goblin looked pure evil. His eyes were brown.

   • 2010, D. S. Macleod, The Middle Times: Rise of the Goblin King, page 229,

     I shall send another entourage of goblins back here to Desput with the goblins’ new ally the Pixy! These creatures deserve the same respect as any other goblin.

Synonyms

• hobgoblin; bug, buggard, bugbear, bog, bogey, bogy, bogie, boggard, boggart, baggard, bogle, boggle, bugaboo, bug-a-boo; elf, kobold, sprite, fairy, fay, fey, fae, faerie, puck, hob (sometimes distinguished, especially in fantasy literature)
• See also Thesaurus:goblin

Derived terms

• gobbo
• goblette
• goblin shark
• goblin spider (family Oonopidae)

Translations

Anagrams

• Boglin, Boling, globin, lobing

Polish

Etymology

From English goblin, from Middle English gobelyn, from Old Northern French gobelin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???b.l?in/

Noun

goblin m anim

1. goblin

Declension

Further reading

• goblin in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• goblin in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

goblin m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. goblin

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• aulf

Etymology

From the same origin as oaf (“elf child”).

Noun

ouphe (plural ouphes)

1. (obsolete) A small, often mischievous sprite; a fairy; a goblin; an elf.
   • 1602, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 5, Scene 4, 1768, John Baskerville, Alexander Pope (editors), The Works of Shakespear, Volume 1, page 301,

     Strew good luck, ouphes, on every ?acred room, / That it may ?tand 'till the perpetual Doom, / In ?tate as whol?om, as in ?tate 'tis fit; / Worthy the owner, as the owner it.

   • 1835, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay, 1899, The Culprit Fa[y], page 4,

     For an Ouphe has broken his vestal vow; / He has loved an earthly maid, / And left for her his woodly shade;

   • 1835, Review of The Culprit Fay and Other Poems by Joseph Rodman Drake and Alnwick Castle by Fitz-Greene Halleck, Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 2, page 329,

     The plot is as follows. An Ouphe, one of the race of Fairies, has "broken his vestal vow," […] in short, he has broken Fairy-law in becoming enamored of a mortal.