kelpie

noun

Definition of kelpienext
as in fairy

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Recent Examples of kelpie Maeve learns that the legends she was raised on — stories of faeries, kelpies and seelies — are actually true. — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 22 May 2026 Al, however, seemed partial to the kelpies, shape-shifting water sprites which most often appear in the form of a horse luring the unsuspecting to watery graves. — Patti Nickell, Boston Herald, 15 Feb. 2026 In a September 27 Instagram video, an Australian kelpie named Bats was at work with another dog. — Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Nov. 2025 At first the dog was said to be a German shepherd mix confined in a closet, but this was later corrected to being an Australian kelpie mix in a crate. — Joy Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for kelpie
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kelpie
  1. fairy
  2. changeling
  3. goblin
  4. faerie
  5. elf
  6. leprechaun
  7. pixie
  8. gnome
Noun
  • One rises, then another, then seemingly all of them—great striped bulbs of crimson, lemon yellow, and turquoise drifting between the fairy chimneys as the first sunlight catches the dusty pink folds of the landscape.
    — Scott Campbell, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The movie begins with one of those too-good-to-be-true meet cutes, where Owen (Spike Fearn) finds his dream girl (Sadie Soverall) who is dressed in a fairy costume and seems to be into him.
    — Lindsey Bahr, Boston Herald, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of fairy
Noun
  • Is the baby really a baby, or has it been replaced by a changeling?
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Like a changeling—a motif that recurs throughout the novel—the old narrator has been taken and replaced by someone new.
    — Bekah Waalkes, The Atlantic, 25 Sep. 2025
Definition of changeling
Noun
  • The magical ring that helped Bilbo escape the goblins had become an instrument of addiction and mass political control.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Two years ago, the Man City phenom appeared in a 90-second spot for the game that saw him get recruited to storm a castle teeming with goblins, dragons and impish skeletons.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 26 June 2026
Definition of goblin
Noun
  • Maeve learns that the legends she was raised on — stories of faeries, kelpies and seelies — are actually true.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 22 May 2026
  • The plays are set in locations as varied as courts, forests, battlefields, and even the realm of faerie.
    — Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Apr. 2026
Definition of faerie
Noun
  • Following the addition of Game of Thrones alum Kit Harington as Professor Gilderoy Lockhart, as a swap for the departing Nicholas Hoult, the HBO fantasy series finds its house elf Dobby, Ron’s sister Ginny Weasley, and young Voldy Tom Riddle.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Lenny Rush will star as the house-elf Dobby, originally voiced by Toby Jones.
    — Yamillah Hurtado, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of elf
Noun
  • The women are in stupid costumes (Heather Gay is dressed as a leprechaun at one point) and yelling at one another for yet-unknown reasons.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Olyphant asked, drawing attention to a leprechaun giving Meyers the middle finger in honor of his new project, Lucky.
    — Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 31 July 2026
Definition of leprechaun
Noun
  • Just before the pandemic, Manhattan’s MCC Theater staged a show called All the Natalie Portmans, about a gay Black teenage cinephile who envisions the actor as a kind of manic pixie imaginary friend.
    — Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Pixie shag Somewhere between pixie and bixie lies this shaggy devil-may-care crop.
    — Loren Savini, Allure, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of pixie
Noun
  • Accounting is not a very physical job, but tell that to the KPMG gnomes who just spent weeks lugging around gold bars in a secret Swiss cavern.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Forza was trained by Brian Myers, Bear Bronson and Pat Buck and regards herself to be a lawn gnome aficionado.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of gnome

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