Goblinry

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The doings or character of goblins. countable, uncountable

    "tales of goblinry"

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"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, But is there nothing, then, save rank imposture, / In all these tales of goblinry at Devorgoil?"

Etymology

From goblin + -ry.

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