carry-on (bag) , hobgoblin, hob, goblin, bugbear, scrum, scrumptious, Elizabethan,something else

My grandfather lived with us when I was growing up. He loved food but in the 1970s there was not a lot of food. So, he invented this soup that was quite disgusting if you think about it now but it was scrumptious then. He boiled water, then would put in one spoonful of lard and soy sauce. And I always thought it was the best soup in the world: hot, salty, greasy. BBC Radio 4 So, why do so many people start their sentences with ‘so’? Seven of your biggest grammar bugbears sorted BBC.CO.UK This common Elizabethan variant on the name hob could be used for helpful household fairies, as when Robert Burton writes of Hobgoblins and Robin Goodfellows that would, in these superstitious times, grinde corne for a mess of milk, cut wood, or do any maner of drudgery work' (Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), part 1, section 2, subsection 2). However, ‘goblin’ on its own generally implies a frightening or even demonic creature, and ‘hobgoblin’ sometimes shared these associations. In more modern use, ‘hobgoblin’ often carries humorous overtones. 'The Elizabethans' By A. N. WILSON Reviewed by JAMES SHAPIRO A. N. Wilson turns his attention to the creative Elizabethan age.   Pursuits How to Choose a Carry-On Bag By SUSAN STELLIN From size to wheels to pockets, here are factors to consider when you're selecting that piece of luggage to take on board.     Airlines Cash In on Overhead Storage Bins By MARTHA C. WHITE The battle of the bins, that preflight scrum over carry-on space, has become something else for airlines: the business of the bins, with priority given to those who pay. Words We Love Too Much A critique of grammar, style and usage in The Times. This week: caught in a “scrum.” scrum[scrum] 発音記号[skrʌ'm] [名] 1 《ラグビー》スクラム. 2 ((略式))((the 〜))無秩序な［押し合いへし合いの］群衆. ━━[動]（〜・med, 〜・ming）(自)スクラムを組む((down)). scrumptious (adjective) Extremely pleasing to the sense of taste. Synonyms: delectable, pleasant-tasting, yummy, toothsome, delicious, luscious Usage: That was a scrumptious apple pie, but I ate so much of it that now I have a terrible stomachache.

hobgoblin
(hŏb'gŏb'lĭn)
n.

1. An ugly, mischievous elf or goblin.
2. An object or a source of fear, dread, or harassment; a bugbear: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" (Ralph Waldo Emerson).

bugbear	An object of dread or apprehension. a particular thing that annoys or upsets you:
Synonyms:	hobgoblin
Usage:	What have I done to be made a bugbear of, and to be shunned and dreaded as if I brought the plague? Smoking is a particular bugbear of his. "the biggest villain is that adman's bugbear, saturated fat"

Elizabethan[E・liz・a・be・than]

• 発音記号[ilìzəbíːθən]

[形]((通例限定))

1 エリザベス（一世）女王（時代）の.

2 《建築》エリザベス朝様式の.

━━[名]エリザベス女王時代の人［詩人, 劇作家］.
goblin
(gŏb'lĭn)
n.
A grotesque elfin creature of folklore, thought to work mischief or evil.

[Middle English gobelin, from Norman French *gobelin, name of a ghost that supposedly haunted the town of Évreux in the 12th century.]

something else

informal an exceptional person or thing:the reaction from the crowd was something else