dwarfish

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English dwarf Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -ish English -ish English dwarfish From dwarf + -ish.

1. Like a dwarf; being especially small or stunted.

   “[…] now does he feel his title / Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe / Upon a dwarfish thief.”

   “1757, Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Section XXIV, in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, London: John C. Nimmo, 1887, Volume I, p. 242, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15043/15043-h/15043-h.htm Besides the extraordinary great in every species, the opposite to this, the dwarfish and diminutive, ought to be considered. Littleness, merely as such, has nothing contrary to the idea of beauty.”

2. Of, pertaining to, or made by or for dwarves.

   “Dwarfish axes are some of the finest weapons available.”