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   gnome

   /nəʊm/

   noun

   • 1. a legendary dwarfish creature supposed to guard the earth's treasures underground.
   • ▪ a small garden ornament in the form of a bearded man with a pointed hat.
   • ▪ a small ugly person: "a grizzled gnome of a man"
   • ▪ a person regarded as having secret or sinister influence in financial matters: "the gnomes of Zurich"

   Word Origin mid 17th century: from French, from modern Latin gnomus, a word used by Paracelsus as a synonym of Pygmaeus, denoting a mythical race of very small people said to inhabit parts of Ethiopia and India (compare with pygmy).

   Derivatives

   • 1. gnomish adjective

   Scrabble Points: 8

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   • N

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   • O

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   • M

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