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Etymology edit

gnome +‎ -ish

Adjective edit

gnomish

  1. Resembling a gnome; gnomelike.
  2. (fantasy) Belonging to a race of gnomes.
    • 2011, David Niall Wilson, Heart of a Dragon:
      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; gnomic

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