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dwarfish

/dwawr-fish/US // ˈdwɔr fɪʃ //

矮人,矬子,矮子,矬子里拔将军

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : like a dwarf, especially in being abnormally small; diminutive.

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Examples

  • While browsing a Beverly Hills record store he was approached by a “weird dwarfish man with huge eyeglasses”.

  • Dialect is the elf rather than the genius of place, and a dwarfish master of the magic of local things.

  • These men are described as small and dwarfish in appearance and as possessing Eskimo characteristics.

  • And the foremost of the troop, a thick dwarfish man with a huge two-handed sword, stood aside.

  • A quaint dwarfish figure, crippled but full of vigour, stumped up to the platform.

  • Besides the extraordinary great in every species, the opposite to this, the dwarfish and diminutive, ought to be considered.