Etymology

gnomish

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Today it means: Resembling a gnome; gnomelike. Full definition →

English gnome ← French gnome
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The story

  1. Frenchgnome
  2. Englishgnome
  3. English todaygnomish

From gnome + -ish.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.