dwarfyadj.

1603 J. Hayward Answer Conf. conc. Succession sig. A2^v Colomannus the elder..was dwarfye, lame, crooke-backt, crab-faced, blunt and bleare-eyed, a stammerer, and (which is more) a Priest.

1691 E. Taylor in J. Behmen's Theosophick Philos. cxxix. Answer 148 See we not..how Mars Influenceth Men, and confines Plants, checks Oaks to he crooked, knotty, dwarfy Shrubs?

1775 C. Varlo Schemes iv. 72 If the land be heathy and barren, the few stock it keeps, are poor, small, and dwarfy, and of very little consequence.

1846 F. P. Palmer & A. Crowquill Wanderings of Pen & Pencil iv. 91 From behind primitive walls and dwarfy pyramids of sombre-tinted thatch, arise..whiffs of aspiring blue smoke.

1913 Amer. Midland Naturalist 3 12 This being our largest species, its name suggests a plant of dwarfy dimensions and is a misnomer.

2013 @riathepinkie 24 May in twitter.com (accessed 11 Oct. 2021) [In response to The female dwarves look a little too… human for my taste] The elves always looked a bit too human in this game to me actually. You can make the dwarves look more or less dwarfy.

1631 W. Twisse Discov. D. Iacksons Vanitie iii. xxi. 704 I professe you stone me with these resemblances of yours, and make me wonder at my dwarfy capacity, that is so overcoped..with these your tall inventions.

1665 E. Waterhouse Gentlemans Monitor 30 Gods wrapping of himself up in the Cloud, executing the pleasure of his Will in this,..our dwarfy reason, and insolent ignorance, tearms..the hysteron proteron of divine Soveraignty.