as in fairy
an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers
the story that if you follow a rainbow to its end, you'll find a leprechaun's pot of gold
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Recent Examples of leprechaun
On March 17, there will be a find-the-leprechaun contest for a gift card.
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Fielding Buck, Orange County Register, 12 Mar. 2025
Place a leprechaun hat on your pet's head and let your child know a leprechaun did it.
—Amanda Rock, Parents, 5 Mar. 2025
Leave a note from the leprechaun signed with an Irish name.
—Amanda Rock, Parents, 5 Mar. 2025
While leprechauns are usually small, make sure the footprints are big enough to be noticed.
—Amanda Rock, Parents, 5 Mar. 2025
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Fielding Buck, Orange County Register, 12 Mar. 2025
Place a leprechaun hat on your pet's head and let your child know a leprechaun did it.
—Amanda Rock, Parents, 5 Mar. 2025
Leave a note from the leprechaun signed with an Irish name.
—Amanda Rock, Parents, 5 Mar. 2025
While leprechauns are usually small, make sure the footprints are big enough to be noticed.
—Amanda Rock, Parents, 5 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for leprechaun
Recent Examples of Synonyms for leprechaun
Noun
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In this fiction, the Crusades were not waged against Moors, but against elves – a race said to devour the flesh of humans, among other atrocities that are neither confirmed nor denied by the end of the story.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2025
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After a season filled with villainous elves, the resurrection of Kandy Muse's iconically hideous pockets look, and budding relationships in the Werk Room (and the bedroom), RuPaul's Drag Race season 17 crowned a winner.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
19 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Lisa’s Joker is part motivational speaker, part chaos goblin.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
5 May 2025
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From its protrusible jaw to its ability to hunt in every environment, the goblin shark exemplifies adaptation to the extremes.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
30 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Tell me a little bit about the technical side of filming a dwarf and an elf together.—
Devan Coggan,
EW.com,
13 Oct. 2022
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Other new characters include Disa, the first female dwarf ever shown in the Lord of the Rings series.—
Ethan Millman,
Rolling Stone,
22 July 2022
Noun
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For instance, people used to hang iron on their doors at night to keep faeries and demons out of their homes (talismans) and a knock on the door in the middle of the night was to be ignored, for surely some evil spirit was lurking outside.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
27 Nov. 2024
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The Unseelie Court is the bastion of malevolent faeries who harm humans for their amusement or to exact revenge.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
27 Nov. 2024
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“Leprechaun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leprechaun. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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