English Dictionary

kobold

noun

(German mythology) An ambivalent, sometimes vindictive, spirit that is capable of materialising as an object or human, often a child; a sprite.

The kobold is a mischievous creature in German mythology.

意味（1）

(German mythology) An ambivalent, sometimes vindictive, spirit that is capable of materialising as an object or human, often a child; a sprite.

At this point a cock crew, and the youth jumped up hastily saying : 'Of course I shall ride with the king to the war, and if I do not return, take your violin every evening to the seashore and play on it, so that the very sea-kobolds who live at the bottom of the ocean may hear it and come to you.'

意味（2）

(German folklore) A mischievous elf or goblin, or one connected (and helpful) to a family or household.

The king had seen all kinds of gnomes, goblins, and kobolds at his coronation; […] .

意味（3）

(fantasy literature) One of a diminutive and usually malevolent race of beings.

There were also various trolls like great smiling badgers, brownies darting about laughing, dwarves with large gray heads, sensuous mermaids, stony kobolds, green gnomes, sirens and many elves, who were busy purifying the sacred hilltop in a mythological cooperation marvelous to the soul's perception.