gremlinn.

Brit.

/ˈɡrɛmlɪn/, U.S.

/ˈɡrɛmlən/

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: goblin n.¹

Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps an alteration of goblin n.¹, although the model for such alteration is unclear.The connection with the name of Fremlin Bros. , brewer of ales and stouts in Maidstone, Kent, suggested in quot. 1942 at sense 1 cannot be substantiated. Other suggestions have been made as to the origin of this word, including a borrowing of Irish gruaimín gloomy little person, or of either Dutch gremmelen to stain, spoil, make dirty or grimmelen, griemelen to swarm, team, but supporting evidence for these is lacking.

1. Originally R.A.F. slang. In early use: †a lowly or despised person; a menial, a dogsbody, a wretch (obsolete). Later: a mischievous sprite imagined as the cause of mishaps to aircraft. More generally: such a creature imagined as the cause of any trouble or mischance. Hence also: an unexplained problem or fault.The concept of the gremlin was popularized, especially in the United States, by Roald Dahl, whose book The Gremlins was published in 1943.

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the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck > embodiment of

misfortune1573

gremlin1929

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > fairy or elf > [noun] > imp, goblin, or hobgoblin > specific types of

gay horse1483

roblet-led1647

redcap?1790

erl-king1797

red-cowl1816

bottle imp1823

gremlin1929

1929 Aeroplane 10 Apr. 576/1 There is a class abhorred, Loathed by all the high and mighty, Slaves who work and get but little, Little thanks for all their labour; Yet they are both skilled and many, Many men with many talents... They are but a herd of gremlins, Gremlins who do all the flying, Gremlins who do much instructing, Work shunned by the Wing Commanders.

1938 P. Gower Women with Wings xii. 200 Chambers told us the old Air Force legend of the Gremlins. These are weird little creatures who fly about looking for unfortunate pilots who are either lost or in difficulties with the weather. Their chief haunts are ravines and the boulder-covered tops of hills. They fly about with scissors in each hand and try to cut the wires on an aeroplane.

1941 C. Graves Thin Blue Line ix. 123 As he flew round, he wished that his instructor had never told him about the Little People—a mythological bunch of good and bad fairies originally invented by the Royal Naval Air Service in the Great War... Those awful little people, the Gremlins, who run up and down the wing with scissors going ‘snip, snap, snip’ made him sweat.

1942 Observer 8 Nov. 6/5 Behaviour of..machines couldn't always be explained by..laws of aerodynamics. And so, lacking a Devil, the young fliers..invented a whole hierarchy of devils. They called them Gremlins, ‘on account of they were the goblins which came out of Fremlin beer bottles’. They were the genii loci of the R.A.F. messes in India and the Middle East, where Fremlin's beer bottles were plentiful.

1944 Amer. Speech 19 280 Gremlins are mythical creatures who are supposed to cause trouble such as engine failure in aeroplanes, a curious piece of whimsy-whamsy in an activity so severely practical as flying. Now the gremlin seems to be extending its sphere of operations, so that the term can be applied to almost anything that inexplicably goes wrong in human affairs.

1958 Times 20 Feb. 5/2 A gremlin in the organ that had decided to add a noisy C sharp to the beautiful soft D major chords.

1969 Daily Tel. 15 Aug. 4/3 Gremlins were at work on this column yesterday and a 7 p.c. stake of the Furness Withy equity appeared in print as 27 p.c.

1984 Cycle World Sept. 77/2 At presstime, the electrical gremlin remained untraced.

2001 Marketing Week 2 Aug. 23/1 The bank had to concede that gremlins had rendered its online service virtually..useless for its customers for nearly a week.

2. Surfing slang. A young or inexperienced surfer; (also) a young person, often one considered a nuisance or troublemaker, who frequents a surfing beach but does not surf. Also in extended use. Cf. gremmie n. 2.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > [noun] > surfer > specific types

rider1914

surf-bum1957

big kahuna1959

gremlin1961

hot dogger1961

kook1961

goofy foot1962

hodad1962

surfie1962

goofy footer1963

natural1965

goofy surfer1968

switchfoot1970

boogie boarder1979

grummet1986

waxhead1987

grom1988

wakeboarder1994

kitesurfer1995

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > [noun] > surfer > trouble-maker

gremmie1960

gremlin1961

1961 Life 1 Sept. 51 If [a beginner's] surfing career goes well, he will be a ‘gremlin’ in a few years.

1965 J. M. Kelly Surf & Sea 286 Gremmie or gremlin, a young inexperienced surf enthusiast to whom nothing counts in life but surf-board and water. Also, an uncomplimentary term applied to those who hang around the beaches for reasons other than surfing.

1967 Internat. Surfing III. iii. 23 There is really a lot of talent running around these days in the form of young gremlins.

1980 J. A. Cuddon Macmillan Dict. Sports & Games 379/1 Gremlin, Skateboarding. A bad rider.

1996 J. E. Nash & J. M. Calonico Meanings of Social Interaction xi. 266 First-timers and the generally uninitiated—gremlins, teeny-boppers and wanna-bes—flood the territory.

2007 L. Choyce Wave Warrior xiii. 97 Surf like a god or surf like a gremlin, but just go do it.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	gremlin
释义	gremlinn. Brit. /ˈɡrɛmlɪn/, U.S. /ˈɡrɛmlən/ Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: goblin n.¹ Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps an alteration of goblin n.¹, although the model for such alteration is unclear.The connection with the name of Fremlin Bros. , brewer of ales and stouts in Maidstone, Kent, suggested in quot. 1942 at sense 1 cannot be substantiated. Other suggestions have been made as to the origin of this word, including a borrowing of Irish gruaimín gloomy little person, or of either Dutch gremmelen to stain, spoil, make dirty or grimmelen, griemelen to swarm, team, but supporting evidence for these is lacking. 1. Originally R.A.F. slang. In early use: †a lowly or despised person; a menial, a dogsbody, a wretch (obsolete). Later: a mischievous sprite imagined as the cause of mishaps to aircraft. More generally: such a creature imagined as the cause of any trouble or mischance. Hence also: an unexplained problem or fault.The concept of the gremlin was popularized, especially in the United States, by Roald Dahl, whose book The Gremlins was published in 1943. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck > embodiment of misfortune1573 gremlin1929 the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > fairy or elf > [noun] > imp, goblin, or hobgoblin > specific types of gay horse1483 roblet-led1647 redcap?1790 erl-king1797 red-cowl1816 bottle imp1823 gremlin1929 1929 Aeroplane 10 Apr. 576/1 There is a class abhorred, Loathed by all the high and mighty, Slaves who work and get but little, Little thanks for all their labour; Yet they are both skilled and many, Many men with many talents... They are but a herd of gremlins, Gremlins who do all the flying, Gremlins who do much instructing, Work shunned by the Wing Commanders. 1938 P. Gower Women with Wings xii. 200 Chambers told us the old Air Force legend of the Gremlins. These are weird little creatures who fly about looking for unfortunate pilots who are either lost or in difficulties with the weather. Their chief haunts are ravines and the boulder-covered tops of hills. They fly about with scissors in each hand and try to cut the wires on an aeroplane. 1941 C. Graves Thin Blue Line ix. 123 As he flew round, he wished that his instructor had never told him about the Little People—a mythological bunch of good and bad fairies originally invented by the Royal Naval Air Service in the Great War... Those awful little people, the Gremlins, who run up and down the wing with scissors going ‘snip, snap, snip’ made him sweat. 1942 Observer 8 Nov. 6/5 Behaviour of..machines couldn't always be explained by..laws of aerodynamics. And so, lacking a Devil, the young fliers..invented a whole hierarchy of devils. They called them Gremlins, ‘on account of they were the goblins which came out of Fremlin beer bottles’. They were the genii loci of the R.A.F. messes in India and the Middle East, where Fremlin's beer bottles were plentiful. 1944 Amer. Speech 19 280 Gremlins are mythical creatures who are supposed to cause trouble such as engine failure in aeroplanes, a curious piece of whimsy-whamsy in an activity so severely practical as flying. Now the gremlin seems to be extending its sphere of operations, so that the term can be applied to almost anything that inexplicably goes wrong in human affairs. 1958 Times 20 Feb. 5/2 A gremlin in the organ that had decided to add a noisy C sharp to the beautiful soft D major chords. 1969 Daily Tel. 15 Aug. 4/3 Gremlins were at work on this column yesterday and a 7 p.c. stake of the Furness Withy equity appeared in print as 27 p.c. 1984 Cycle World Sept. 77/2 At presstime, the electrical gremlin remained untraced. 2001 Marketing Week 2 Aug. 23/1 The bank had to concede that gremlins had rendered its online service virtually..useless for its customers for nearly a week. 2. Surfing slang. A young or inexperienced surfer; (also) a young person, often one considered a nuisance or troublemaker, who frequents a surfing beach but does not surf. Also in extended use. Cf. gremmie n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > [noun] > surfer > specific types rider1914 surf-bum1957 big kahuna1959 gremlin1961 hot dogger1961 kook1961 goofy foot1962 hodad1962 surfie1962 goofy footer1963 natural1965 goofy surfer1968 switchfoot1970 boogie boarder1979 grummet1986 waxhead1987 grom1988 wakeboarder1994 kitesurfer1995 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > [noun] > surfer > trouble-maker gremmie1960 gremlin1961 1961 Life 1 Sept. 51 If [a beginner's] surfing career goes well, he will be a ‘gremlin’ in a few years. 1965 J. M. Kelly Surf & Sea 286 Gremmie or gremlin, a young inexperienced surf enthusiast to whom nothing counts in life but surf-board and water. Also, an uncomplimentary term applied to those who hang around the beaches for reasons other than surfing. 1967 Internat. Surfing III. iii. 23 There is really a lot of talent running around these days in the form of young gremlins. 1980 J. A. Cuddon Macmillan Dict. Sports & Games 379/1 Gremlin, Skateboarding. A bad rider. 1996 J. E. Nash & J. M. Calonico Meanings of Social Interaction xi. 266 First-timers and the generally uninitiated—gremlins, teeny-boppers and wanna-bes—flood the territory. 2007 L. Choyce Wave Warrior xiii. 97 Surf like a god or surf like a gremlin, but just go do it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1929
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