Synonyms of the word

hob

• n. A kind of cutting tool, used to cut the teeth of a gear.
• n. (historical) The flat projection or iron shelf at the side of a fire grate, where things are put to be…
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) The top cooking surface on a cooker. It typically comprises several…
• n. A rounded peg used as a target in several games, especially in quoits.
• n. A male ferret.
• n. The hub of a wheel.
• v. (transitive) To create (a gear) by cutting with a hob.
• v. (intransitive) To engage in the process of cutting gears with a hob.
• n. (obsolete) A fairy; a sprite; an elf; a bogey.
• n. (obsolete) A countryman; a rustic or yokel.

brownie

• n. (cooking) A small square piece of rich cake, usually made with chocolate.
• n. (folklore) A mythical creature, a helpful elf who would secretly do people's housework for them.
• n. (paganism) A household spirit or revered ancestor.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A tall, long-necked beer bottle, made from brown coloured glass.
• n. (ethnic slur, offensive) A person of Arab, Indian or Hispanic descent. Also rarely used for a Native American…

cut

• adj. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
• adj. Reduced.
• adj. Omitted from a literary or musical work.
• adj. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
• adj. (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
• adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among…
• adj. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Emotionally hurt.
• adj. Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.
• adj. Removed from a team roster.
• adj. (New Zealand) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
• n. An opening resulting from cutting.
• n. The act of cutting.
• n. The result of cutting.
• n. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
• n. (specifically) An artificial navigation as distingished from a navigable river.
• n. A share or portion.
• n. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
• n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the…
• n. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also,…
• n. (golf) In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained…
• n. (theater) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.
• n. (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
• n. The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
• n. The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
• n. A slab, especially of meat.
• n. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
• n. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
• n. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio…
• n. (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits…
• n. A haircut.
• n. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
• n. A string of railway cars coupled together.
• n. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
• n. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
• n. (slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
• n. A skein of yarn.
• v. (heading, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
• v. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
• v. (transitive, heading, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
• v. (intransitive, film, audio, usually as imperative) To cease recording activities.
• v. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove and place in memory for later use.
• v. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
• v. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball…
• v. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
• v. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
• v. (transitive, slang) To write.
• v. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
• v. (transitive) To exhibit (a quality).
• v. (transitive) To stop or disengage.
• v. (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball,…

elf

• n. (Norse mythology) A luminous spirit presiding over nature and fertility and dwelling in the world of Álfheim…
• n. Any from a race of mythical, supernatural beings resembling but seen as distinct from human beings. Usually…
• n. (fantasy) Any of the magical, typically forest-guarding races bearing some similarities to the Norse álfar…
• n. A very diminutive person; a dwarf.
• v. (now rare) To twist into elflocks (of hair); to mat.

faerie

• n. Archaic spelling of fairy.
• n. Realm of the fays, fairyland.

faery

• n. Obsolete spelling of fairy.

fairy

• n. (uncountable, obsolete) The realm of faerie; enchantment, illusion.
• n. A mythical being with magical powers, known in many sizes and descriptions, although often depicted in…
• n. (Northern England, US, derogatory, colloquial) A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate.
• n. Two species of hummingbird in the genus Heliothryx.

fay

• v. To fit.
• v. To join or unite closely or tightly.
• v. To lie close together.
• v. To fadge.
• v. (dialectal) To cleanse; clean out.
• n. A fairy.
• adj. Fairy like.
• n. (US slang) A white person.
• adj. (US slang) White.

goblin

• n. Various hostile supernatural creatures, now especially (fantasy literature) a malevolent and grotesque…

gremlin

• n. A mythical creature reputed to be mischievously inclined to damage or dismantle machinery.
• n. (by extension) Any mysterious, unknown source of trouble or mischief.

hobgoblin

• n. A small, ugly goblin that makes trouble for humans.
• n. (by extension) A source of dread, fear or apprehension; a bugbear.

imp

• n. (obsolete) A young shoot of a plant, tree etc.
• n. (obsolete) A scion, offspring; a child.
• n. A young or inferior devil; a malevolent supernatural creature, similar to a demon but smaller and less…
• n. A mischievous child.
• n. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) Something added to, or united with, another, to lengthen it out or repair…
• n. A baby Tasmanian devil.
• v. (obsolete) To plant or engraft.
• v. (archaic) To graft, implant; to set or fix.
• v. (falconry) To engraft feathers into a bird's wing.
• v. To eke out, strengthen, enlarge.

pixie

• n. (mythology, fantasy literature, fairy tales) A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature.
• n. (slang) A cute, petite woman with short hair.
• n. (astronomy, meteorology) An upper-atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, a short-lasting…

pixy

• n. Alternative spelling of pixie.

shelf

• n. A flat, rigid structure, fixed at right angles to a wall or forming a part of a cabinet, desk etc., and…
• n. The capacity of such an object.
• n. A projecting ledge that resembles such an object.
• n. A reef, shoal or sandbar.

sprite

• n. (mythology) A spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition.
• n. (mythology) An elf; a fairy; a goblin.
• n. The green woodpecker, or yaffle.
• n. (computer graphics) A two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene.
• n. An electrical discharge that occurs high above the cumulonimbus cloud of an active thunderstorm.
• n. A spayed female ferret.