RUMPELSTILTSKIN

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• RUMPELSTILTSKIN (noun)
  The noun RUMPELSTILTSKIN has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: RUMPELSTILTSKIN used as a noun is very rare.

• RUMPELSTILTSKIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

character; fictional character; fictitious character (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story))