Definition of "kabouter" []

• A tiny folkloric man who traditionally wears a pointy red hat, lives in harmony with nature and resides in mushrooms, similar to a gnome, leprechaun or a smurf. (noun)

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• "The big boys and girls, in the kabouter kingdom, are not much over a foot high."
• "The kabouter at once got out his saw, hatchet, auger, long, chisel-like knife, and smoothing plane."
• "Now when the kabouter daddies began the roaring fires for the making of the bells, the little mothers and the small fry in the kabouter world could not afford to be idle."