hobgoblin

noun hobgoblin

• puck — Also called Hobgoblin, Robin Goodfellow. a particularly mischievous sprite in English folklore who appears as a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
• brownie — Brownies are small flat biscuits or cakes. They are usually chocolate flavoured and have nuts in them.
• bogeyman — A bogeyman is someone whose ideas or actions are disapproved of by some people, and who is described by them as evil or unpleasant in order to make other people afraid.
• pixie — a fairy or sprite, especially a mischievous one.
• imp — a little devil or demon; an evil spirit.