gnome has definitions from the field of folklore
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[ noun ] (folklore) a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure

Synonyms

dwarf

Used in print

(John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)

I would not want to be one of those writers who begin each morning by exclaiming , `` O Gogol , O Chekhov , O Thackeray and Dickens , what would you have made_of a bomb_shelter ornamented with four plaster-of-Paris ducks , a birdbath , and three composition gnomes with long beards and red mobcaps '' ?

Related terms

fairy andvari nibelung

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[ noun ] a short pithy saying expressing a general truth

Related terms

maxim sod's_law murphy's_law

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