"goblinish" meaning in All languages combined

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  ],
  "etymology_text": "goblin + -ish",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more goblinish",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most goblinish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w"
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        {
          "ref": "1848, Anne Brontë, chapter 2, in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, volume 1, London: T. C. Newby, pages 32–33",
          "text": "[…] the castellated towers of laurel in the middle of the garden, the gigantic warrior that stood on one side of the gateway, and the lion that guarded the other, were sprouted into such fantastic shapes as resembled nothing either in heaven or earth, or in the waters under the earth; but, to my young imagination, they presented all of them a goblinish appearance, that harmonized well with the ghostly legions and dark traditions our old nurse had told us respecting the haunted hall and its departed occupants.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1902, G. K. Chesterton, “A Defence of Ugly Things”, in The Defendant, London: E. Brimley Johnson, page 87",
          "text": "[…] the phrase ‘grotesque’ is a misleading description of ugliness in art. It does not follow that either the Chinese dragons or the Gothic gargoyles or the goblinish old women of Rembrandt were in the least intended to be comic.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "Resembling or characteristic of a goblin."
      ],
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        [
          "goblin",
          "goblin"
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  "word": "goblinish"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "goblin + -ish",
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    {
      "form": "more goblinish",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "most goblinish",
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        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1848, Anne Brontë, chapter 2, in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, volume 1, London: T. C. Newby, pages 32–33",
          "text": "[…] the castellated towers of laurel in the middle of the garden, the gigantic warrior that stood on one side of the gateway, and the lion that guarded the other, were sprouted into such fantastic shapes as resembled nothing either in heaven or earth, or in the waters under the earth; but, to my young imagination, they presented all of them a goblinish appearance, that harmonized well with the ghostly legions and dark traditions our old nurse had told us respecting the haunted hall and its departed occupants.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1902, G. K. Chesterton, “A Defence of Ugly Things”, in The Defendant, London: E. Brimley Johnson, page 87",
          "text": "[…] the phrase ‘grotesque’ is a misleading description of ugliness in art. It does not follow that either the Chinese dragons or the Gothic gargoyles or the goblinish old women of Rembrandt were in the least intended to be comic.",
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        "Resembling or characteristic of a goblin."
      ],
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