rumpelstiltskin
[,rʌmpəl'stiltskin]
- n. 侏儒怪(德国民间故事中的侏儒状妖怪)
英英释义
- 1. a dwarf in one of the fairy stories of the brothers Grimm; tells a woman he will not hold her to a promise if she can guess his name and when she discovers it he is so furious that he destroys himself
英文词源
- Rumpelstiltskin (n.)
- 1840, from German Rumpelstilzchen. The German form of the name is used in English from 1828.