Associations to the word «Rumpelstiltskin»

RUMPELSTILTSKIN, proper noun. A fairy tale about a dwarf who saves the miller’s daughter by spinning straw into gold in exchange for her first-born child, but is foiled when she guesses his name.

RUMPELSTILTSKIN, proper noun. The fictional dwarf who is the title character of that story.

RUMPELSTILTSKIN, noun. 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.