hobgoblin• And what of hobgoblins, gnomes and the little people of Ireland?• How do we know that dwarves or goblins or hobgoblins, that kind of thing, didn't really live here?• As a child, I was treated as the school hobgoblin.• Ill-treatedhobgoblins can cause strife and discord, though, souringmilk, tangling clothes and muddyingfloors for spite.
Originhobgoblin
(1500-1600)hob“bad spirit”((15-19 centuries)) (from Hob, a man's name, from Robert) + goblin