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Gremlin

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pixienoun(mythology, fantasy literature, fairy tales) A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature.
hobnoun(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) The top cooking surface on a cooker; a cooktop. It typically comprises several cooking elements (often four), also known as 'rings'.
pixynounAlternative spelling of pixie. [(mythology, fantasy literature, fairy tales) A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature.]
brownienoun(usually countable, baking, originally US) A small square piece of rich cake, usually made with chocolate.
elfnoun(fantasy) A member of a race of tall, slender, graceful beings with pointed ears, typically immortal or very long-lived and possessing wisdom and magical abilities.
impnoun(chiefly fiction and mythology) A small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature, somewhat comparable to a demon but smaller and less powerful, formerly regarded as the child of the devil or a demon (see sense 3.2).

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pixynounAlternative spelling of pixie. [(mythology, fantasy literature, fairy tales) A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature.]
pixienoun(mythology, fantasy literature, fairy tales) A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature.
elfnoun(fantasy) A member of a race of tall, slender, graceful beings with pointed ears, typically immortal or very long-lived and possessing wisdom and magical abilities.
hobnoun(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) The top cooking surface on a cooker; a cooktop. It typically comprises several cooking elements (often four), also known as 'rings'.
impnoun(chiefly fiction and mythology) A small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature, somewhat comparable to a demon but smaller and less powerful, formerly regarded as the child of the devil or a demon (see sense 3.2).
brownienoun(usually countable, baking, originally US) A small square piece of rich cake, usually made with chocolate.
figmentnounA fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious.
fantasynoun(literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
phantomnounA ghost or apparition.
spectrenounBritish standard spelling of specter.
specternounA ghostly apparition, a phantom. [from 17th c.]
ghostnounA disembodied soul; a soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.
gremlinologistnoun(humorous) A person skilled in the study of gremlins.
sprognoun(UK, Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, informal, humorous) A child.
grummelnounMud, sediment.
gangrelnoun(dialectal, Scotland) A tramp, vagrant, vagabond.
grassernoun(British, slang) A grass; an informer.
grebonoun(slang, UK, countable) A member of a United Kingdom subculture of the late 1980s and early 1990s, musically affiliated with garage rock and electronica, typically wearing baggy clothes and hair in high ponytails.
grease-monkeynounAlternative form of grease monkey. [(idiomatic, slang) A mechanic, often with the specific connotation of an automobile mechanic.]
grizzlernounOne who grizzles.

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