Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. Resembling a gnome.
Etymologies
- gnome + -like (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A former fighter who'd retired in 1914, Goldman was often described as "gnomelike" and stood just over five feet tall.”
“Although Gauguin was almost obsessively focused on the feminine, he made repeated images of his gnomelike friend Meijer de Haan, a Dutch painter who studied with Gauguin in Brittany.”
The Washington Post: Recurring themes and icons in Gauguin's art
“He was, indeed, gnomelike, old and gnarled and small.”
“But he had no intention of going gently into that good night, wizened and gnomelike that he was.”
“Murdoch spied a gray-haired gnomelike being with a miniature cane and traced forward like a shot.”
“Behind her the walls and roof of the house expanded, as though the whole structure had taken a deep breath, and then most of it fell to pieces, to be replaced by a great tunnel of blue light twenty feet across from which more and more creatures began to pour: imps and small dragons, hooded serpents and hunched gnomelike figures armed with axes and blades.”
“I make it a point to go see a gnarled, gnomelike fellow at my local market who gives me samples and tells me when to eat what and points out bruised fruits that actually have more sugars.”
“Carlos, the gnomelike little man who once held OPEC ministers for ransom in Vienna and shot down unarmed French policemen in Paris, certainly thinks that way.”
“He was fairly certain that when people recognized his gnomelike visage in hotel lobbies, they were saying that very thing to each other: there goes JJ Magruder, the most powerful man in amateur sports in America.”
“It was a deformed, gnomelike thing, a sort of clumsy caricature of a human being, with a huge domed head as big as the rest of its body.”
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