Kobold: dictionary.com word of the day

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Word of the Day for Tuesday November 15, 2005

kobold \KOH-bold\, noun:
In German folklore, a haunting spirit, gnome, or goblin.

Witch, kobold, sprite. . . and imp of every kind.
--A. J. Symington

This world and the other, too, are always present to his mind, and there in the corner is the little black kobold of a doubt making mouths at him.
--James Russell Lowell, Among My Books

The Kobolds were a species of gnomes, who haunted the dark and solitary places, and were often seen in the mines.
--Sir Walter Scott, Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft

Kobold comes from Middle High German kobolt, "goblin."

Trivia: Cobalt, the metal, "the goblin of the mines," was named by those who had to work it after the kobold, since the ore contains arsenic, which made the miners ill.

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