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Dwarfish

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dwarf  (dwôrf)
n. pl. dwarfs or dwarves (dwôrvz)
1.
a. An abnormally small person, often having limbs and features atypically proportioned or formed.
b. An atypically small animal or plant.
2. A small creature resembling a human, often ugly, appearing in legends and fairy tales.
3. A dwarf star.
v. dwarfed, dwarf·ing, dwarfs
v.tr.
1. To check the natural growth or development of; stunt: "The oaks were dwarfed from lack of moisture" (John Steinbeck).
2. To cause to appear small by comparison: "Together these two big men dwarfed the tiny Broadway office" (Saul Bellow).
v.intr.
To become stunted or grow smaller.
[Middle English dwerf, from Old English dweorh.]
dwarfish adj.
dwarfish·ness n.
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Adj.1.dwarfish - atypically small; "dwarf tree"; "dwarf star"
little, small - limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group"


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The large man was always home precisely at ten o'clock at night, at which hour he regularly condensed himself into the limits of a dwarfish French bedstead in the back parlour; and the infantine sports and gymnastic exercises of Master Bardell were exclusively confined to the neighbouring pavements and gutters.
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Hyde was pale and dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation, he had a displeasing smile, he had borne himself to the lawyer with a sort of murderous mixture of timidity and boldness, and he spoke with a husky, whispering and somewhat broken voice; all these were points against him, but not all of these together could explain the hitherto unknown disgust, loathing and fear with which Mr.
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In North-European mythology, a dwarfish imp inhabiting the
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