Gremlin
[ˈɡrɛm.lɪn]Meaning
a mischievous fictional creature blamed for machinery malfunctions
Background Story
The word was first used in Royal Air Force slang among British pilots stationed in Malta, the Middle East and India in the 1920s, where it referred to a lowly menial person such as a low-ranking officer or enlisted man given oppressive assignments. Its sense of a mischievous creature that sabotages aircraft arose in the same slang, with the earliest printed record in a poem published in the journal Aeroplane in Malta on 10 April 1929. Stories about such creatures as the causes of inexplicable technical and mental problems of pilots were especially popular during and after World War II.
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