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dwarfish, a.|ˈdwɔːfɪʃ|
[f. dwarf n. + -ish.]
Approaching the size of a dwarf, dwarf-like; of a stature or size below the average; pygmy, puny.
1565–73Cooper Thesaurus, Homuncio..a litle man: a dwarfishe fellow. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. iii. ii. 295. 1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 23 In Ferraria among other strange beasts, they nourish dwarvish Asses. 1681Dryden Sp. Friar Ded., A dwarfish thought, dressed up in gigantic words. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) II. 219 A whole race of the dwarfish breed is often found to come down from the north. 1825Macaulay Ess., Milton (1854) I. 22 The days..of dwarfish talents and gigantic vices. 1852Beck's Florist Aug. 183 It has a dwarfish habit, is a profuse bloomer.
Hence ˈdwarfishly adv.; ˈdwarfishness.
1656Artif. Handsom. 75 Shrunk to a dwarfishnesse and epitomized to a Decimo-sexto. 1755Johnson, Dwarfishly, like a dwarf. 1841–4Emerson Ess. Ser. ii. i. (1876) 38 To express themselves symmetrically and abundantly, not dwarfishly and fragmentarily. 1850Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) III. xii. 217 Written by a Miss Bronté, a clergyman's daughter, diminutive almost to dwarfishness. |