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goblinry

goblinry noun: the doings or character of goblins.

Noun

goblinry (countable and uncountable, plural goblinries)

  1. The doings or character of goblins.
    • tales of goblinry
    • But is there nothing, then, save rank imposture, / In all these tales of goblinry at Devorgoil?1830, Walter Scott, The Doom of Devorgoil Act III, Scene 1, in Lyrics, Dramas and Miscellaneous Pieces, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1875, p. 276

Forms of goblinry

pluralgoblinries

Origin of goblinry

From goblin + -ry.

Questions about goblinry

What does goblinry mean?
Goblinry means the doings or character of goblins.
What part of speech is goblinry?
Goblinry is a noun.
What is the plural of goblinry?
The plural of goblinry is goblinries.

Words near goblinry in the dictionary

  1. goblinlike
  2. goblinmode
  3. goblinoid
  4. goblinoids
  5. goblinries
  6. goblinry
  7. goblins
  8. gobo
  9. goboes
  10. gobonated
  11. gobonee

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