dwarf

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  1. noun An abnormally small person, often having limbs and features atypically proportioned or formed.
  2. noun An atypically small animal or plant.
  3. noun A small creature resembling a human, often ugly, appearing in legends and fairy tales.
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  • But the beast was too tall for the dwarf, and for all his frantic efforts to leap onto the nervous beast, all Geno got was a horseshoe-shaped bruise on the side of his chest. —  Spearwielder's Tale 3.htm
  • It started for the dwarf, then seemed to change its mind and made for the table instead. —  The Woods Out Back
  • For the first time since he had met Geno, Gary sensed that the dwarf was afraid. —  The Woods Out Back
  • 'But what's the catch chapter 7: BOBO'S RUN THE PARCHATEAU, SOUTHERN FRANCE BY the time Mulch and Doodah landed outside Tourrettes sur Loup, the dwarf was a nervous wreck. —  ARTEMIS FOWL is a child prodigy from Ireland who has dedicated his brilliant mind to criminal activities
  • Chunks of flesh and blood fell to the sand as the dwarf was eviscerated. —  VANCE MOORE
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  1. Middle English dwerf, from Old English dweorh.

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  1. from Middle English dwarf, dwerf, where f represents the changed sound (so in Low German below) of the guttural, which also took a different development in the parallel Middle English dwerowe, dwerwe (modern English as if *dwarrow; cf. arrow, barrow, etc.), from dwergh, dwerk (whence also modern dial, durgan), a dwarf, particularly as an attendant, from Anglo-Saxon dweorg, dweorh, a dwarf (def. 1), = Dutch dwerg, a dwarf, = Middle Low German dwerch, dwarch, dwark = Low German dwarf, a dwarf, contr. dorf, an insignificant person or thing, = Old High German twerg, Middle High German twerc, querch, zwerch, German zwerg, a dwarf, = Icelandic dvergr = Swedish and Danish dverg, a dwarf. The mythological sense appears especially in Scandinavian, and may be the orig. sense.
  2. from dwarf, n.
 

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