Definition of "kobold" []

• An often mischievous household elf in German folklore. (noun)
• A gnome that haunts underground places in German folklore. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Cobalt-based colours and pigments have been used since ancient times for jewellery and paints, and miners have long used the name kobold ore for some minerals."
• "Apparently some creature called a kobold escaped from wherever my grandfather trapped it, and it has teamed up with Milo."
• "FWIW, the problem I reported last week about van. pydeb is actually a toolchain issue, reproducible only with svn-buildpackage, I've forwarded all debugging info to kobold which is working on it ..."