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Definition: Hobgoblin |
HobgoblinNoun1. (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hobgoblin" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Hobgoblin Puck or robin Good-fellow. Keightley thinks it a corruption of Rob-Goblin - i.e. the goblin Robin, just as Hodge is the nickname of Roger, which seems to agree with the subjoined quotation: "Those that Hobgoblin call you, and sweet Puck, You do their work, and they shall have good Luck." Shakespeare: Midsummer Night's Dream, ii. .1 Hob is certainly sometimes used for a sprite or fairy, as a hob-lantern - i.e. an ignis fatuus or fairy-lantern, but this may mean a "Puck-lantern" or "Robin Goodfellow-lantern." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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- Hobgoblin (comics)
- Hobgoblin (fairy)
- Hobgoblin (monster)
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The Hobgoblin is a comic book supervillain appearing in Marvel Comics' Amazing Spider-Man series.The Hobgoblin came into being when Roderick Kingsley discovered an abandoned secret lair of the supervillain known as the Green Goblin (who was believed at the time to be dead). Using the Green Goblin's equipment, Kingsley (as the Hobgoblin) set out to plague Spider-Man. Eventually Kingley met a fate shared by many Spiderman villains.
Later, another character took up the guise of the Hobgoblin, Jason Philip Macendale Jr. (AKA Jack o' Lanturn). This Hobgoblin was very intent upon finding the secret formula of super human strength of the original Green Goblin. Frustrated with his lack of results in reproducing the formula, Macendale would later attempt other avenues to this end.
During a demonic incursion on New York the Hobgoblin attempted to make a deal with Demons from Limbo in exchange for the abilities of the original Green Goblin. He was tricked and transformed into a literal hobgoblin, with his equipment replaced by mystical equivalents. Macendale lost his sanity at that point.
Special Skills: Macendale was trained by the CIA and various para-military organizations.
- Name: Jason Philip Macendale Jr.
- Hieght: 6'1"
- Wieght: 210 lbs.
- Eyes: Brown
- Hair: Black
- Intelligence Level: Gifted (possibly deteriorated due to insanity)
- Strength Level: Superhuman Class 10
- Endurance Level: Metahuman
- Speed Level: Superhuman, subsonic with magical transport
- Agility Level: Enhanced human
- Stamina Level: Enhanced human
- Reflexes Level: Enhanced human
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Hobgoblin is a term typically applied in folktales to a friendly or amusing goblin. The meaning in the bestiaries of fantasy role-playing games tends to be rather different.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hobgoblin (fairy)."
Synonyms: HobgoblinSynonyms: goblin (n), hob (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fear | Bug bear, bugaboo; scarecrow; hobgoblin; (demon); nightmare, Gorgon, mormo, ogre, Hurlothrumbo, raw head and bloody bones, fee-faw-fum, bete noire, enfant terrible. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Hobgoblin |
| Specialty definitions using "hobgoblin": ELF ♦ Fantom-fellow ♦ Hugon. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "hobgoblin": Puck. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds (Next Stop Wonderland; writing credit: Brad Anderson; Lyn Vaus) That may be so, but I'm not gonna sit pretty while the Dark Hand strolls into my backyard to had a hall pass to a hobgoblin. (Jackie Chan Adventures; writing credit: Christoph Busch; Uwe Johnson) | |
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Theater & Movies | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. |
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| "Hobgoblin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.67% of the time. "Hobgoblin" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 91.67% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
the hobgoblin | 45 |
spider man the hobgoblin | 12 |
hobgoblin music | 5 |
consistency hobgoblin | 3 |
beer hobgoblin | 3 |
hobgoblin pic | 3 |
consistency foolish hobgoblin little mind | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "hobgoblin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vitore (hob), lugat (basilisk, bogey, boggard, Bogle, cockatrice, fright, hob, spectre, turn-skin), gogol (bogy, bugaboo, bugbear, hob, scarecrow). (various references) | |
Arabic | غول (alcohol, bogey, ghoul, goblin, ogre), جنى بشع. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | зъл дух (demon, hob, incubus, sprite), плашило (bogey, fright, golliwog, grotesque, hob, scarecrow), дяволче (hob, imp). (various references) | |
Czech | skřítek (elf, elves, gnome, Goblin, gremlin, imp, manikin, pixie, pixy, pygmy, sprite), šotek (brownie, gremlin, imp, puck). (various references) | |
Farsi | لولو (Bogeyman, Bugaboo, Bugbear, Pearl, Scarecrow), غول (Bugaboo, Gargantuan, Giant, Ogre), زشت وموذی , جنی (Goblin, Imp, Jinn(Ni)), شبگرد, دزد (Burglar, Peculator, Picaroonp, Piker, Robber, Stealer, Thief). (various references) | |
French | lutin, croque-mitaine. (various references) | |
German | kobold (bogey, elf, gnome, goblin, gremlin, imp, leprechaun, pixie, pixy, puck, sprite). (various references) | |
Greek | ξωτικό (elf, hob, pixy, puck, sprite), φάντασμα (apparition, bogey, bogy, genie, ghost, gnome, phantasm, phantom, pixy, specter, spook, sprite, wraith). (various references) | |
Hungarian | mumus (black bogy, bogey, bogey-man, bogey-men, boogey, boogey man, bugaboo, bugbear, cow, golliwog, mumbo-jumbo), manó (boggle, bogy, brownie, elf, elfin, elves, flibbertigibbet, gnome, goblin, imp, leprechaun, pigmy, pixie, pixy, pygmy, sprite, troll), lidérc (cacodaemon, cacodemon, cow, incubus, mare), kobold (boggard, boggle, bogle, bogy, flibbertigibbet, Goblin, pixie, pixy, puck, sprite). (various references) | |
Italian | folletto (bogy, elf, elfin, Goblin, gremlin, imp, pixie, pixy, sprite). (various references) | |
Manx | buggane (bete noir; unlaid egg, bogeyman, bugaboo, scarecrow). (various references) | |
Norwegian | nisse. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | obgoblinhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | trasgo (goblin, sprite), duende (bogle, elf, elfin, hob, imp, leprechaun, pixie, pixy, spirit, sprite). (various references) | |
Romanian | strigoi (ghost, poltergeist, spirit, vampire), strigoaicã (ghost), spiriduş (brownie, elf, elfin, elves, familiar, Goblin, spook, sprite), gnom (elf, fairy, gnome, sprite), drãcuşor (Goblin, imp, mischief). (various references) | |
Russian | домовой (bogey, bogy, brownie). (various references) | |
Scottish | bòcan. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bauk (bogey, bogy, boogeyman, bugaboo, bugbear, hob). (various references) | |
Spanish | trasgo (bogey, bogie, bogy, Goblin, sprite), duende (brownie, daemon, duende, elf, goblin, hob, leprechaun, poltergeist, puck, sprite). (various references) | |
Swedish | troll (charm, elf, goblin, ogre, troll). (various references) | |
Turkish | muzip peri, cin (clever person, demon, elf, Geneva, genie, gin, gnome, Goblin, gremlin, hob, Hollands, jinnee, puck, sprite, white satin), şakacı peri. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | страховище (bogy, bugaboo, dread, monstrosity, scare, scarecrow), бісеня, домовик (bogy, sprite, urchin). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | yêu quái ma, quỷ (dickens, leprechaun, pooka), ông ba bị (bogey, bogy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hobgoblin": hobgoblins. (additional references) | |
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"Hobgoblin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hobgobblin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-g-h-i-l-n-o-o" | |
-1 letter: hobbling. | |
-2 letters: boobing, hobbing, hoboing, lobbing. | |
-3 letters: booing, gibbon, globin, goblin, hobnob, holing, logion, looing, oblong, oohing. | |
-4 letters: bilbo, bingo, boing, bongo, igloo, lingo, logoi, oboli, ohing. | |
-5 letters: blin, blob, boil, bolo, bong, boob, boon, glib, glob, gobo, goon, hobo, hong, ling, lino, lion, lobo, logo, loin, long, loon, nigh, noil, nolo, obol, olio. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-g-h-i-l-n-o-o" | |
+1 letter: hobgoblins. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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