gremlin

I scoop it up with Breton crackers, usually while standing at the fridge like a little gremlin.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2025

“PS you’re giving off super gremlin energy. Not in a good way,” Del Rey added.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2023

The title characters have classic toon precedent — remember the maladroit elves in Tex Avery’s 1950 “The Peachy Cobbler,” or the gremlin in that Bugs Bunny cartoon?

From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2022

It came after a difficult night for Red Bull, in which they made a number of changes to the car chasing a technical gremlin.

From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2022

The gremlin mob turned on Root, and when they saw the triple-barreled blaster on his hip, they kept right on turning.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

Recent models of the artificial-intelligence chatbot have been bringing up the creatures in conversations with users seemingly out of the blue, as well as gremlins, trolls and ogres.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

As mechanized as a race — or a movie — can feel, success or failure hinge on the human element, the hero battling the gremlins in the machine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2025

Off-loads stuck, England could not stem Samoa's angles and Nigel Ah Wong scored two quick tries for the underdogs to set old gremlins in flight.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2023

Or might the notoriously finicky electrical systems in British vehicles bedevil these vehicles with compounded gremlins?

From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2022

At one o’clock in the morning, my little brother, who in my lonely days of inferno dwelling had protected me from goblins, gnomes, gremlins and the devils, was leaving home.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou