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gnomish

adj

Etymology

From gnome + -ish.

  1. derived from gnomus
  2. borrowed from gnome
  3. suffixed as gnomish — “gnome + ish”

Definitions

  1. Resembling a gnome

    Resembling a gnome; gnomelike.

  2. Belonging to a race of gnomes.

    • Whoever had taken Vanessa had brushed past the gnomish wizard with no more thought than one gave a mosquito, and the result of that encounter had been astonishingly violent—and final.

  3. aphoristic

    aphoristic; gnomic

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for gnomish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA