(n.) An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.
Thesaurus Entries
Ariel, Befind, Corrigan, Finnbeara, Lilliputian, Mab, Oberon, Titania, Tom Thumb, apple-polisher, ass-licker, backscratcher, backslapper, banshee, biscuit, bootlick, bootlicker, brown-nose, clawback, cluricaune, cookie, courtier, creature, cringer, date bar, dupe, dwarf, elf, fairy, fairy queen, fawner, fay, flatterer, flunky, footlicker, fruit bar, ginger snap, gingerbread man, gnome, goblin, gremlin, groveler, handshaker, helot, hob, homunculus, imp, instrument, jackal, kobold, kowtower, lackey, ladyfinger, led captain, leprechaun, lickspit, lickspittle, macaroon, manikin, mealymouth, midge, midget, minion, ouphe, peewee, peon, peri, pip-squeak, pixie, pooka, puca, puppet, pwca, pygmy, runt, serf, shortbread, shrimp, slave, spaniel, sprite, stooge, suck, sugar cookie, sycophant, sylph, sylphid, timeserver, toad, toady, tool, truckler, tufthunter, wart, yes-man
