dwarfish

Etymology

dwarf + -ish

adj

  1. Like a dwarf; being especially small or stunted.
    1757, Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Section XXIV, in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, London: John C. Nimmo, 1887, Volume I, p. 242, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15043/15043-h/15043-h.htm Besides the extraordinary great in every species, the opposite to this, the dwarfish and diminutive, ought to be considered. Littleness, merely as such, has nothing contrary to the idea of beauty.
    The vegetation, as might be supposed, is scant, or at least dwarfish. 1843, Edgar Allan Poe, The Gold-Bug
    Mr. Hyde was pale and dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation […] 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
  2. Of, pertaining to, or made by or for dwarves.
    Dwarfish axes are some of the finest weapons available.

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