gollumish

English[edit]

gollumish (comparative more gollumish, superlative most gollumish)

(informal) Having similar traits to the fictional character Gollum, including obsessiveness, sinisterness or talking in an unusual manner often punctuated by hissing sounds.
- 2003: "I do feel a bit Gollumish about it…" —alt.support.low-carb, 12 Nov 2003
- 2004: "With the gollumish Tony Blair never far away, urging him on, George W Bush doggedly climbed his own Mt Doom and thrust the Coalition of the Willing into the fire – along with a few thousand apparently expendable human lives." —The New Zealand Listener, Vol 191, "2003 reloaded", 27 Jan 2004