NelsonYou overhear the phrase "crab goblin", with no further context. What does it mean to you?
Goblin who loves crabs (maybe obsessed)
Goblin who looks like a crab
Goblin made out of crabs
Something else (please explain)
Poll ended at .
As a vegetarian and lover of wildlife, I'm saddened by all the responses only thinking of crabs as food. Crabs are also experts at dancing on the graves of scumbags, for example.
abby@skyfaller surprised my answer ranked lowest tbh! why couldn't goblins carcinize we don't know what they are made of
@vapaad To be pedantic, I believe carcinization refers to things evolving into a crab shape, so this process would probably favor answer 2, looking like a crab. But it should be compatible with also being made out of crabs!
Mostly I was trying to remind people of my favorite alternate version of Spider-Man, Spiders-Man: https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Spiders-Man_(Earth-11580)
Spiders-Man (Earth-11580)
18 appearance(s) of Spiders-Man (Earth-11580) 1 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Spiders-Man (Earth-11580) 1 minor appearance(s) of Spiders-Man (Earth-11580) 2 mention(s) of Spiders-Man (Earth-11580) 9 image(s) of Spiders-Man (Earth-11580) 2 quotation(s) by or about Spiders-Man (Earth-11580)
Asheville Charlie@skyfaller
The person at the food bar that takes all the crab legs.
The person at the food bar that takes all the crab legs.
@avlcharlie so "goblin" means hoarder for you, and this is a crab leg hoarder? Why not a crab dragon, then? Surely dragons are more well known for their hoards.
@skyfaller
True.. but goblin and gobbling are phoenetically tasty 😁
True.. but goblin and gobbling are phoenetically tasty 😁
Captain ButtonSome kind of exotic seafood.
@cptbutton Perhaps you're thinking of goblin sharks? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goblin_shark
They're very rare though, please don't eat them.
So sorta like a seafood turducken thing, then.
(I have heard there are old recipes like that that go 13 levels deep, but cannot legally be made anymore, due to endangered species laws.)
Dave Clark@skyfaller goblin with a crab lookalike artificer companion
Icarosity@skyfaller A crab that has goblin-like characteristics I guess?
But then again if everything eventually evolves into crabs maybe goblins do too
@nancywisser It's been well-established at least in superhero fiction that Spider-Man is a man with spider themes, while the less famous Man-Bat is a bat with humanoid characteristics. The first word is usually considered an adjective modifying the second word. So a "crab goblin" would be some sort of goblin, following that convention, not a crab.
That said, no one is in charge of English and no one can stop you from bucking the trend!
@skyfaller Okay, now I'm inventing a world where every kind of being has its own constellation of forms based on the original so that there are for example cat elves, cat fairies, cat gnomes, cat goblins and cat wraiths etc, and the same for everything including crabs. 🤔
I mean if Pratchett can have a Death of Rats with a little scythe
(In other words I concede your point.)
ptvirgo@skyfaller Someone gobbling crabs.
Nicolas Ward 
@skyfaller A person with a goblin-like obsession with crabs (not a literal goblin)
Bill Cole (donutage)@skyfaller I don't really know (I picked goblin-who-looks-like-a-crab), but I definitely want to be their friend.
ResunaEither:
1. Crab that looks like a lumpy humanoid (reality-leaning).
2. A member of a goblin subspecies undergoing carcinization (fantasy-leaning).
Adam Bender@skyfaller When you're in Maryland and can't stop crab goblin' cuz they're just so damn tasty.
bread wizard@skyfaller Crab Gobblin'