gnomette

English

Etymology

From gnome +‎ -ette.

Noun

gnomette (plural gnomettes)

1. A female gnome.
   • 1954 December 8, “North Pole Express and Santa Delights Wide-Eyed Orphans”, in The Journal, 69th year, number 293, Ottawa, Ont., page 7:

     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.

   • 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:

     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.

   • 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:

     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).

   • 2005, The Fader, page 117:

     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.

   • 2008, Stefano Benni, translated by Antony Shugaar, Timeskipper, Europa Editions, →ISBN, page 116:

     “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.

   • 2008, Keith Wunderlich, Vernor’s Ginger Ale (Images of America), Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 85:

     Two “gnomettes” accompanied a rather hairy-looking gnome to various locations around the Detroit area to run the contest.

   • 2011, Elva V. Medina, Jack Shepherd, Realmwalkers, →ISBN, page 25:

     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.

   • 2014, Mary Hughes, Downbeat, Entangled Publishing, LLC, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2017, Patrick Barkham, Islander: A Journey Around Our Archipelago, Granta, →ISBN:

     Then I compliment Mairi Ceit, genuinely, on the striking pink gnomette by her backdoor. Someone has donated it for her memorial garden, she explains.

   • 2019, Ray Bussard, Gurgurtha: The Epic Quest, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 164:

     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.

   • 2022, Caren Krutsinger, “Faerie Queen of the Mushrooms”, in Hippies Mushrooms Music Sixties Seventies and Viet Nam, →ISBN:

     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.

Synonyms

• gnomess

French

Etymology

From gnome +‎ -ette.

Noun

gnomette f (plural gnomettes)

1. female equivalent of gnome: gnomette
   • 1998, Cahiers du Cinéma, page 74:

     C’est encore celui, final, des mariages, qui multiplie les contre-emplois (une oie sert de serviette, les grenades de balles de jonglage…) et surtout celui de la rencontre entre le géant et la « gnomette » cachée dans son tronc d’arbre, coup de foudre qui défie les règles élémentaires de la physique.

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   • 2000, Marie-Jeanne Ortemann, editor, Les avatars du réalisme : colloque de Nantes, 3 et 4 décembre 1999, Ouest-Editions, →ISBN, page 41:

     On s’attardera sur l’exemplaire chasse à la gnomette, (dont le prénom et le nom, Aphrodita Karambolo, semble-t-il, ne sont pas neutres), suivie de la « vraie » noce, car cet « aller-retour » est une bonne synthèse des autres.

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   • 2013, Michel Jeury, Les Tours divines, Bragelonne, →ISBN:

     Ou même une jolie petite gnomette boiteuse et manchote, mais baisable et douillette !

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   • 2017, René Renard, La geste gnome, →ISBN, page 75:

     Missandria est une gnomette qui a grandi dans la ville de Cârn, capitale du pays portant le même nom.

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   • 2018, Jérome Smiel, Gandorr en voyage sur Aztlan et sur Mictlan (La Saga Gandorr; 2), Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 206:

     Des bottes blanches serrant jusqu’à la hauteur des genoux pour les gnomes et des bottines également blanches pour les gnomettes…

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   • 2021, Yves Damotte, Une fée sur le balcon, Publishroom Factory, →ISBN:

     En deux jours, vous voyez, une gnomette est venue se plaindre dans ma voiture d’avoir été photographiée par le Père Noël, avant qu’un type des pays de l’Est ne me fasse des mystères au téléphone, façon guerre froide.

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   • 2022, Audrey Alwett, Le gnome qui voulut être fée, Éditions ActuSF, →ISBN:

     Les jeunes gnomettes se disputaient pour savoir qui obtiendrait le titre de « Reine des Amanites », bien qu’Inocybe de Patouillard fut pressentie gagnante à presque 100 %.

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   • 2022, Alex De Kyburg, Les invisibles: Nouvelles, Editions Art Visionnaire Narratif, →ISBN:

     Les gnomes et gnomettes grimaçants que sont devenus les autres participants, le présentateur et sa poupée me poussent sur la tribune, tout en haut, sur le numéro un.

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Synonyms

• gnomesse