dwarflingn.adj.

a1618 J. Sylvester Wood-mans Bear (1620) xxxiii When the Dwarfling [sc. the god Cupid] did perceive me, Me, Love's most rebellious scorner.

1628 W. Mure Fancies Farewell in Wks. (1898) I. 195 Hence-foorth fare-well all counterfeit delyte, Blinde Dwarfling, I disclaime thy deitie, My Pen thy Trophees neuer more shall write.

1767 E. Lloyd Conversation 27 Better with Lilliputian Dwarflings dwell, Or where to Mountains Brobdingnagians swell.

1850 T. Keightley tr. in Fairy Mythol. (new ed.) 264 The good Dwarflings [Ger. Zwerglein] still kept house, Small in form but highly gifted.

1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 24 Aug. 1/2 The curious dwarflings of the Kalihari.

1901 Country Life Illustr. 1 June 686/1 We know it as a plant for the old wall, and feel a shock when some dwarfling in the garden is pointed out to us as an acquisition because it is new. A dwarf Wallflower is as bad as a dwarf Sweet Pea.

2013 R. A. Savatore Companions ii. 70 What dwarf homeland would thrive through the centuries if the dwarflings were not tutored in the ways of stone and metal?

1623 D. Donne Sub-poena from Star-chamber of Heaven 113 God will not be satisfied with such a Barren and Dwarfling Obedience [sc. ‘praying vnto God in the Church once a weeke, the hearing of a Sermon once a moneth, a strict obseruation of the Saboth once a quarter’, etc.].

1768 One Thousand, Seven Hundred, Sixty-eight 5 Each northern dwarfling thorn Points to our skies, as if full southward born.

1832 J.-B. Rousseau in Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 67/2 Ye dwarfling [Fr. petits] authors of a vile Review, Who think yourselves Apollo's priests and sages.

1904 tr. G. Andersson in A. Sundbärg Sweden i. 14 The ground has a covering of different species of ericaceous-plants, sphagnum, and sedge, with here and there some patches of dwarfling pines.

1974 J. Eagan Jrnl. 30 June in Traveler toward Dawn 39 At Communion time the whole church surged forward..the dwarfling little kids looking up at me and smiling.