gnomish
adjEtymology From gnome + -ish.
1
Resembling a gnome; gnomelike.
2
Fantasy 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.2011, David Niall Wilson, Heart of a Dragon:
3
aphoristic; gnomic
- Derived terms
- gnomishly, gnomishness