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Robin Goodfellow

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A mischievous sprite in English folklore; Puck.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A domestic spirit or fairy, said to be the offspring of a mortal woman and Oberon, king of Fairyland.
  • noun As a general name, an elf; a fairy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • A celebrated fairy; Puck. See puck.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a mischievous sprite of English folklore

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Examples

  • He is also known as Robin Goodfellow, and he's rather mischievous, but he does make up for it by trying to do the right thing.

    Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Stephanie 2008

  • And once inside they become the playthings of Puck, also known as Robin Goodfellow, also known in myth as the Green Man of the forest, the Green Man being a pagan symbol of fertility, fertility being, in other words, Peter? '

    A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001

  • There was a little hunchbacked tailor, named William Goodfellow, living on his property (but who at Abbotsford was termed Robin Goodfellow).

    Sir Walter Scott Hutton, Richard 1878

  • a little hunchbacked tailor, named William Goodfellow, living on his property (but who at Abbotsford was termed Robin Goodfellow).

    Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) Richard Holt Hutton 1861

  • Directed by the Gate Theatre's Natalie Abrahami, Headlong's latest touring production relocates Shakespeare's familiar play to a Hollywood studio and reimagines it as a dream experienced by the hugely creative director Robin Goodfellow, who is having some difficulties with his leading man and lady.

    This week's new theatre 2011

  • His brother Niko is a super-disciplined martial arts expert who never fails to remind Cal that Cheetos do not belong in a major food group and Robin Goodfellow famously known as the puck from William Shakespeare's A Midsummer's Night's Dream is on the trip to test a vow of monogamy and act as a general distraction.

    Archive 2010-05-01 2010

  • Maytime rituals in England marked the return of fertility to the land and customarily featured two presiding spirits: Robin Goodfellow, the rough-and-ready huntsman, precursor of Robin Hood, and the Queen of the May, clad in white and garlanded in flowers, an emblem of the abundance and anarchy of spring.

    Ridley Scott's Maid Marian for our time 2010

  • His brother Niko is a super-disciplined martial arts expert who never fails to remind Cal that Cheetos do not belong in a major food group and Robin Goodfellow famously known as the puck from William Shakespeare's A Midsummer's Night's Dream is on the trip to test a vow of monogamy and act as a general distraction.

    Book Review and Giveaway! "Roadkill" by Rob Thurman 2010

  • He morphed into the character of Robin Goodfellow—a Puck-like nature sprite likely taken from the Greek god, Pan.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Joanna Waugh 2009

  • It is from Robin Goodfellow that stories of Robin Hood were spawned.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Joanna Waugh 2009

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