Rumpelstiltskin

Definition: Rumpelstiltskin

Rumpelstiltskin

Noun

1. 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.

Date "Rumpelstiltskin" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1812. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Rumpelstiltskin (1915)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Rumpelstiltskin is a fictional character, the title character of the German language fairy tale Rumpelstilzchen by the Grimm Brothers.

Rumpelstiltskin is a nasty dwarf who wants to take the first born child of the miller's daughter, who is destined to be a princess.

The name "Rumplestiltskin" is an English approximation of the original German name. The character is known by a variety of names in a number of other languages:

Dutch: Repelsteeltje
French: Grigrigredinmenufretin

Domain	Title
Books	Rumpelstiltskin (reference) Rumpelstiltskin (Rabbit Ears Books) (reference) The Rumpelstiltskin Problem (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Rumpelstiltskin (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-i-k-l-l-m-n-p-r-s-s-t-t-u"
	-4 letters: multipliers.
	-5 letters: instillers, intertills, multiplets, multiplier, multiplies, puerilisms, superminis, turnstiles.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 75 6D 70 65 6C 73 74 69 6C 74 73 6B 69 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01110101 01101101 01110000 01100101 01101100 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101100 01110100 01110011 01101011 01101001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#117 &#109 &#112 &#101 &#108 &#115 &#116 &#105 &#108 &#116 &#115 &#107 &#105 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0075 006D 0070 0065 006C 0073 0074 0069 006C 0074 0073 006B 0069 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

528779827178858675788685777580

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Expression	Frequency per Day
rumpelstiltskin	46
picture rumpelstiltskin	2
band rumpelstiltskin	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Rumpelstiltskin

Definition: Rumpelstiltskin