gnome
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8.2
- noun
- /noʊm/
- Literature
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gnomo
- In the fairy tale, the gnome lived deep underground, guarding hidden treasures.
- garden gnome
- lawn gnome
- little gnome
But they had a game where I could see little gnomes.
- But they had a game where I could see little gnomes.
- I talked about a Finnish mountain gnome and was told that Finland is without mountains.
- Because it's, and someone corrected me, it's not the dwarfs, it's the gnomes.
- It's like this little squeeze bottle little cheek slime here kind of looks like a lawn gnome.
- The goof is almost like a gnome, you know, but not quite like a gnome.
- I'd taken out the well the first two I could chalk up to, you know, these damn gnomes.
- And so, so you thought a woman was like one of those, those little gnomes as little belly with the jewel in her belly.
- A lot of people pointed out you don't need a visa to go from Ireland to Iceland, but I think this was a working gnome.
Examples
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Look at these little gnomes and put them in the basement.
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A gnome gazed solemnly into dust-gray eyes magnified by the lenses set in tortoise-shell frames.
Fiction book (1994) -
The winner will receive a garden gnome designed to look like them.
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Hey, check out the little gnome.
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That gentleman sitting over there with the gnome is urgently focused on our table.
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They're little gnomes and every one of them is different.
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And half the people in Iceland still believe gnomes.
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There's the little gnome section right here, and those are cute gnome ornaments right there with bells on the bottom.
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The gnome cast a gaze out toward the side window, where the fog was swirling past.
Fiction book (1999) -
Duncan looked like a fierce little gnome, or maybe a troll, even when he smiled.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
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7.1
A small often bearded creature that lives underground and guards hidden treasure
Idioms
- Informal
Describes something very hard to understand or find in a joking way
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gnome for the little garden creature was first used in the 1500s from a Latin coinage gnomus thought to mean 'earth-dweller', so a gnome is easy to picture as a tiny, bearded man who lives under the ground and guards hidden things.