"Goblins are humanoid creatures who can be found across the wide world. They are reluctantly differentiated by gender, size, profession, class, and grotesquery. They are sometimes confused for gnomes, to the disgust of both sets of creatures." worldstar.miserytourism.com/index.php/Go...

Familiar to me in the UK

Though kind of old-fashioned?

Putting these guys out of business by slightly undercutting them is slow and unethical but at least I get $24 out of it

"Goblins are humanoid creatures who can be found across the wide world. They are reluctantly differentiated by gender, size, profession, class, and grotesquery. They are sometimes confused for gnomes, to the disgust of both sets of creatures." worldstar.miserytourism.com/index.php/Go...

An annotated version, with is on the First Age project wiki worldstar.miserytourism.com/index.php/Fo...

To take this seriously there's a bit in one of the Lensman (Lensmen?) books where they're doing an experimental treatment to regrow body parts and the Admiral's dentures don't fit as his teeth regrow and he complains he can't live off soup. The doctor says he'll send a nurse with a soft-boiled egg.