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n. A small statue of a gnome used as a garden ornament.
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A garden gnome, or lawn gnome, is a figurine of a small humanoid creature, usually wearing a pointy hat, displayed for the purpose of ornamentation on front lawns or in gardens. These figurines originated in 19th-century Germany, where they became known as Gartenzwerge (garden dwarfs). The application of the term gnome in English to this type of garden statute is first attested in the 1930s.
Usage examples of "garden gnome".
Fred, George, Harry, and Ron were the only ones who knew that the angel on top of the tree was actually a garden gnome that had bitten Fred on the ankle as hr pulled up carrots for Christmas dinner.
He was in no mood and no condition to have another one-sided conversation with the garden gnome.
Yorn receded into the storm, dwindling across the immense lawn until he appeared to be no bigger than a garden gnome, until he was finally gone like a ghost.
It was red, Fiona was short, and in it she looked like a garden gnome.
He had offered to carry the case himself but the wiry little farmer, ruddy cheeked like a garden gnome, had insisted on taking it from him.
One of my favourite cultural fossils, said he, is the garden gnome.
Tully said, his grin making his face look even more like a garden gnome's than usual.
I'd twiddled my thumbs for seventeen days before someone came in to report a stolen lawn ornament (a concrete garden gnome, I seem to recollect).
Chipped head of a grinning garden gnome and some paperback romance novels with holes drilled through them.