gremlin

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

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2025

Now I have my VTuber model and can be a little gremlin in my pajamas and no one has to know because Monarch is always perfect.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2025

The success of "goth gremlin witch" Bambie Thug at last year's Eurovision has conjured a veritable coven of imitators in 2025.

From BBC ● May 9, 2025

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

Seven was almost positive Valley was a cuco or, at the very least, part gremlin.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

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

Alongside telling it to avoid platitudes, it said Codex should "never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user's query".

From BBC ● Apr. 30, 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

Whatever qualms I had were the kind of technical gremlins that taunt any opening night.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2022

A beleaguered sprite was sheltering behind her ticket desk, besieged by angry gremlins.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer