Caliban
Caliban definition
Cali·ban (kal′i ban′, -bən)
noun
a deformed, brutish creature, the slave of Prospero, in Shakespeare's The Tempest
Etymology: form of canibal, cannibal, with interchanged n & l; canibal occurs in Hakluyt's Voyages (1598)
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