Crossword-Solution: HOBGOBLIN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hobgoblin | n. | A frightful goblin; an imp; a bugaboo; also, a name formerly given to the household spirit, Robin Goodfellow. |
We have 21 clues for the answer “HOBGOBLIN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Bugbear or bugaboo | 1 answer |
| Robin Goodfellow. | 3 answers |
| Mischievous imp | 5 answers |
| Bugaboo | 6 answers |
| mischievous sprite | 8 answers |
| flibbertigibbet | 8 answers |
| Puck | 10 answers |
| kobold | 11 answers |
| Mischief-maker | 13 answers |
| Sprite | 18 answers |
| Bogeyman | 19 answers |
| Spook | 27 answers |
| Troll | 31 answers |
| Elf | 31 answers |
| goblin | 33 answers |
| Imp | 33 answers |
| SUPERNATURAL appearance | 35 answers |
| Bogey | 35 answers |
| Bugbear | 42 answers |
| Gnome | 48 answers |
| Dwarf | 53 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HOBGOBLIN (5)
Enlivened by his brightening prospects, he began to caper about the kitchen like a hobgoblin, with the queerest antics of his lean limbs, and gesticulations of his starved features.
What a vile slip of the pen was that! How absurd in me to talk about burying the bones of Byron, who, I have just seen alive, and incased in a big, round bulk of flesh! But, to say the truth, a prodigiously fat man always impresses me as a kind of hobgoblin; in the very extravagance of his mortal system I find something akin to the immateriality of a ghost.
LXVI To see if he could break the thread which tied The felon's life, upon his way the knight Set forward, and to Damietta hied, To find Orrilo, so the thief was hight; Thence to the river's outlet past, and spied The sturdy castle on the margin dight; Harboured in which the enchanted demon lay, The fruit of a hobgoblin and a fay.
Overproduction in special lines, which was the great hobgoblin of your day, is impossible now, for by the connection between distribution and production supply is geared to demand like an engine to the governor which regulates its speed.
The inns are such hobgoblin places, that they are infinitely more attractive and amusing than the best hotels in Paris.
Quotes with HOBGOBLIN (3)
The hobgoblin of a little mind may be the genius of a great one.
Here is the most valuable thing in the whole of Moomin Valley, Groke! Do you know what has grown out of this hat? Raspberry juice and fruit trees, and the most beautiful little self-propelling clouds: the only Hobgoblin's Hat in the world!
We've decided to wake a miss for you because you are nice. We want a booby as roomful as ours." Everybody had seen the Hobgoblin laugh, but nobody believed he could smile. He was so happy that you could see it all over him -- from his hat to his boots! Without a word he waved his cloak over the grass -- and behold! Once more the garden was filled with a pink light and there on the grass before them lay a twin to the King's Ruby -- the Queen's Ruby.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, WSJ.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1964–2022).