What is "gnomish"

Usage examples of "gnomish".

Borel to one Henjare bad-Qavao the Brazier, a gnomish Mikardandu whom Borel first dazzled with his facade and then swore to secrecy with dreadful-sounding oaths of his own invention.

This gnomish philosopher with the weak eyes, this studier of ants and espouser of moral codes, he wanted Philip to make war against the greatest empire in the world.

There were other aliens as well, a small gnomish creature with five limbs and two things like snakes with legs, all wearing coats of icewhale fur.

As the gnomish contraption came about for another approach, Jilian Firestoke waved and Chestal Thicketsway ran to the ledge to watch.

As Moros and the dragon neared, he could hear the sound of gnomish industry.

If someone traded soft fruits for grain, the grain to be delivered, the soft fruits might have spoiled, or been eaten, before the nondelivery occurred (counting, the gnomish law specified, the days between making the contract and expected delivery, before nondelivery could be charged.

Thin-lipped and big-eared, he looked somehow gnomish in a paradoxically uncomical sort of way.