Meanings
comparative more gremlinesque · superlative most gremlinesque
- Like, or in the manner of, a gremlin.
"To Cure a Weakling Child, Contour Regard" and "Funny Little Man" are awash with the gremlinesque twittering of childrens' voices.
1998, SPIN, volume 14, number 1, page 1161 more example
Gremlinesque behaviour might not be very obvious to an America, who would accept as perfectly natural the quaintly pixilated sayings and doings that are happening in subways, in trolleys, on buses, in bars at all times of the day and night.
1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 107
Origin
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