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Definition of Robin goodfellow
1. Noun. A mischievous sprite of English folklore.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Robin Goodfellow
Literary usage of Robin goodfellow
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1845)
"LIFE OF robin goodfellow. This most important, indeed the most valuable illustration
we have of the Midsummer's Night's Dream, is reprinted from a ..."
2. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by Robert ed Dodsley, William Carew Hazlitt (1874)
"robin goodfellow. Why, this will be sport alone ; but what would you have ...
robin goodfellow. Tush ! man. I have a device in my head already to do that. ..."
3. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1900)
"The phooka appears to be a modification of robin goodfellow or Puck. The merrow
is a mermaid. The dullahan is a malicious, sullen spirit or goblin, ..."
4. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1887)
"said robin goodfellow, "that is a disagreeable state of affairs. ... "Well,"
continued robin goodfellow, "you can always call your swine with it, ..."
5. Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages by Percy Society (1840)
"... and perhaps wrote, a play upon the story of robin goodfellow, in September
1602, two years after " Midsummer Night's Dream" had been published. ..."
6. A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes ; with Additional Notes by Isaac Reed, Robert Dodsley, Octavius Gilchrist, John Payne Collier (1827)
"Is robin goodfellow a bug-bear grown, Grim. O Lord save us! sure he is some
country- devil ; he hath got a russet coat upon his face. Shorthose. ..."
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