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Cosa (chi) è gremlin - definizione

FOLKLORIC MISCHIEVOUS CREATURE
  • A World War II gremlin-themed industrial safety poster
  • Royal Air Force pilot and author [[Roald Dahl]] flew a [[Hawker Hurricane]] during WWII which he incorporated into his 1943 children's novel ''[[The Gremlins]]''
  • [[William Shatner]] and the Gremlin in ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' episode "[[Nightmare at 20,000 Feet]]" (1963)

gremlin         
¦ noun a mischievous sprite regarded as responsible for unexplained mechanical or electrical faults.
Origin
1940s: perh. suggested by goblin.
gremlin         
Little kid that gets on you nerves.
The gremlins are coming!
gremlin         
(gremlins)
A gremlin is a tiny imaginary evil spirit that people say is the cause of a problem, especially in a machine, which they cannot explain properly or locate.
The microphones went dead as if the technical gremlins had struck again.
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Wikipedia

Gremlin

A gremlin is a mischievous folkloric creature invented at the beginning of the 20th century to originally explain malfunctions in aircraft, and later in other machinery, processes, and their operators. Depictions of these creatures vary widely. Stories about them and references to them as the causes of especially inexplicable technical and mental problems of pilots were especially popular during and after World War II.

Use of the term in the sense of a mischievous creature that sabotages aircraft first arose in Royal Air Force (RAF) slang among British pilots stationed in Malta, the Middle East, and India in the 1920s, with the earliest printed record in a poem published in the journal Aeroplane in Malta on 10 April 1929. Later sources have sometimes claimed that the concept goes back to World War I, but there is no print evidence of this.

There is evidence of earlier RAF reference in the 1920s to a lowly menial person, in other words a low-ranking officer or enlisted man saddled with oppressive assignments.

Esempi dal corpus di testo per gremlin
1. The campaign, featuring the now–famous gremlin character, was launched in 2001 to target the millions of people with literacy, numeracy and language needs.
2. I’ll just make sure I wear a Global Cool tee so that the issue gets highlighted.» Secretly Sienna × She’s half–American; her father’s side × Her family nickname is Gizmo, after the naughty gremlin × She schooled at Heathfield, a posh boarder in Ascot × She doesn’t believe in personal security guards × She doesn’t have a driver’s licence × She doesn’t have a personal stylist, but has a closet full of freebies ––> ––>