gnomette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gnomettes
Etymology: From gnome + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: His little helpers, including three curvaceous gnomettes clad in fitted Santa suits, passed out candies to the children, and there were Christmas songs and entertainment too.
ref: 1954 December 8, “North Pole Express and Santa Delights Wide-Eyed Orphans”, in The Journal, 69th year, number 293, Ottawa, Ont., page 7:
text: Last year, the gnomes and gnomettes were able to visit several homes in forsaken slums and ease life for a few families by giving them things that couldn’t have been found in Santa’s warehouse.
ref: 1957 December 15, Paul V. Craigue, “Everybody’s Digging In So All May Receive”, in The Boston Sunday Globe, volume CLXXII, number 168, [Boston, Mass.]: Globe Newspaper Co., pages 10—B:
text: Fortunately, he manages to escape from the sneak pit and, after a few more adventures, resolves the young gnome’s problem by playing matchmaker for him and a shy gnomette (Cami Sebring).
ref: 1967 July 27, Barry Robinson, “On Shore Screens: Gnomes Are Where the Heart Is”, in Asbury Park Evening Press, eighty-eighth year, number 175, Asbury Park, N.J., page 30:
text: But because it was Halloween you also had Chris Swanson, Secretly Canadian’s cofounder, dressed as a cowboy, Aaron Deer of the Impossible Shapes wearing a spray-painted cardboard box around his torso as one-third of The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, and—late in the evening—Odawas’s Isaac Edwards covered in fake blood, wielding a half-full bottle of Smirnoff and flanked by two tall blonde garden gnomettes.
ref: 2005, The Fader, page 117:
text: “What should I carve on the prow as a figurehead? A naked gnomette? A doe? Selene in jeans?” “Leave her out of this.” “I saw the two of you, you know, in the woods,” said the gnome, dancing and leaping.
ref: 2008, Stefano Benni, translated by Antony Shugaar, Timeskipper, Europa Editions, →ISBN, page 116:
text: Two “gnomettes” accompanied a rather hairy-looking gnome to various locations around the Detroit area to run the contest.
ref: 2008, Keith Wunderlich, Vernor’s Ginger Ale (Images of America), Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 85:
text: Despite her childlike appearance by human standards, she was an adult gnome, or “gnomette” as female gnomes were often called. Alain grinned at her steed. The fully-grown unicorn was only about thirty-eight inches high as measured at the last hairs of its mane, the perfect size for a gnomette.
ref: 2011, Elva V. Medina, Jack Shepherd, Realmwalkers, →ISBN, page 25:
text: He was holding a freckle-faced gnomette, considering it with a small but warm smile. Wow. He really meant it, which surprised me. You had to be especially sensitive to get Mom’s art.
ref: 2014, Mary Hughes, Downbeat, Entangled Publishing, LLC, →ISBN:
text: Then I compliment Mairi Ceit, genuinely, on the striking pink gnomette by her backdoor. Someone has donated it for her memorial garden, she explains.
ref: 2017, Patrick Barkham, Islander: A Journey Around Our Archipelago, Granta, →ISBN:
text: One of your dwarves falls in love with a comely gnome maiden who works at one of the bistros in town. She convinces him to relinquish the perilous mission and settle down in matrimonial splendor and the jubilant pitter-patter of scampering gnomettes.
ref: 2019, Ray Bussard, Gurgurtha: The Epic Quest, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 164:
text: His spoiled son Chester who knew very little at all. Wanted an elf princess who was voluptuous and tall. She is truly amazing, his father said, talking her up. If he had his way, she’d arrive in a loving cup. Chester had his eye on a gnomette with a goosey grin.
ref: 2022, Caren Krutsinger, “Faerie Queen of the Mushrooms”, in Hippies Mushrooms Music Sixties Seventies and Viet Nam, →ISBN:
synonyms: gnomess
gnomide
glosses: A female gnome.