(n.) An imaginary being, supposed by the Rosicrucians to inhabit the inner parts of the earth, and to be the guardian of mines, quarries, etc.
(n.) A dwarf; a goblin; a person of small stature or misshapen features, or of strange appearance.
(n.) A small owl (Glaucidium gnoma) of the Western United States.
Example Sentences:
(1) Referee: Peter Bankes (Merseyside) This gnome, who lives in the shrubbery of Guardian gardening expert Jane Perrone, will be rooting for Luton Town this afternoon.
(2) I had cooked, sometimes, with difficulty, yet woke one day to find I had somehow assembled a bizarre array of crockery on my floor, like a gnomes' tea party but with much scurf; I daily grew too fatigued to lift things and spent increasing hours abed.
(3) But six letters – as immortalised in David Bowie’s best-forgotten 1960s hit The Laughing Gnome – was also common, with those really, really amused expressing ‘hahaha’ and ‘hehehe’.
(4) For this tale of a young waitress with an insouciant approach to haircuts, garden gnomes, and life, Craig Lucas supplies the book, Daniel Messé and Nathan Tyse the music and lyrics.
(5) It was preceded by the novelty single The Laughing Gnome , a flop at the time but a top 10 hit when reissued in 1973.
(6) But a spokeswoman for the RHS said the gnomes were safe and well-guarded in their offices.
(7) Poundland sold more than 6m boxes of Maltesers, 2m umbrellas, more than 2.5m CDs and 500,000 garden gnomes during the past year.
(8) A semisterile F1 male mouse from an X-ray experiment produced about 25 percent lethal gnome young in outcrosses.
(9) Wilf, possibly the first garden gnome in 100 years to legitimately show his face at Chelsea, looked as if he wanted to hide in a massive display of delphiniums, but Robinson was having none of it, thrusting him into the bright light and sweet smells of the main marquee.
(10) The gnomes of the ratings agencies have had a dire crisis.
(11) By scanning EM (SEM), gnome's hat-shaped organisms with beaded borders correspond to the crescent-shaped cysts noted by TEM.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bowie during the Laughing Gnome period in 1968.
(13) Elton John has reportedly garnished his with glitter and given him sunglasses, but those of Dolly Parton, Dames Maggie Smith and Judi Dench, Rob Brydon and others will not be seen until the royal family and the garden grandees who have so long opposed the gnomes' introduction have had a look on Monday.
(14) Meanwhile financial speculators, back then called the Gnomes of Zurich, were making large profits at Britain’s expense.
(15) With almost no bylines in the magazine besides the likes of Lord Gnome, Glenda Slagg, Dr B Ching, Remote Controller and Lunchtime O'Boulez, Hislop seems content to be its public face, as was shown when he led the charge in fighting Andrew Marr's injunction in April – a point of principle which cost Private Eye six-figure legal bills and produced only a few paragraphs of copy.
(16) The typical stigmata are a "gnome" facies with a saddle nose, broad mouth, large and low-set ears, hirsutism, cutis laxa with atrophy of adipose tissue, dwarfism, extreme wasting, and dysphagia requiring parenteral feeding.
(17) Next week, the RHS will unveil over 100 gnomes, painted for charity by celebrities.
(18) And rude-sounding phrases abounded: "There'll be finger bogling and massed goat pandering at the Royal Nobblers Institute all next week"; "An exhibition of gnome clenching in the corset department of Sparkslaw and Towser".
(19) If it is red, white and blue it is flying off the shelves, according to several retailers, with sales of 30,000 official jubilee tea towels, 3,000 B&Q royal garden gnomes and 1,500 miles of Tesco bunting.
(20) On Friday, neither the Garden Gnome Liberation Front , nor the supposedly less militant Garden Gnome Emancipation Movement – which take gnomes from gardens to "free them" from "enslavement" in flower beds, lawns, gardens and centres – could be contacted.
Quip
Definition:
(n.) A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort; a gibe.
(v. t.) To taunt; to treat with quips.
(v. i.) To scoff; to use taunts.
Example Sentences:
(1) It would not be so much "house arrest as manor arrest", he quipped.
(2) Richards was a feminist who, rather than scaring men, stung them with her wit, a technique she famously applied to President George Bush senior in what became a legendary quip in American politics.
(3) More than anything, I started to feel that I was calling my friends less, seeing my friends less and that our friendships were being reduced to a trickle of pictures, comments and quips.
(4) Keates quipped that the only positive thing she could think to say about the education secretary was that he was the union's "new poster boy", citing the surge in recruitment since he took over the department.
(5) "Greeks need to unburden their fears," says the comic, the scent of cologne permeating his dressing room after he has danced, sung and quipped his way through another rendition of "Sorry … I'm Greek".
(6) How to stop Donald Trump: women may hold the solution Read more If she believes that Trump’s criticism of women is not “gender-specific”, as she said in a CNN interview , can she tell us whether her father would ever quip that a male doctor graduated from “Baywatch Medical School ”?
(7) We have a few quotations from a compendium of jokes of the first emperor Augustus (not all brilliant: "When a man was nervously giving him a petition and kept putting his hand out, then drawing it back, the emperor quipped, 'Hey, do you think you're giving a penny to an elephant?'").
(8) That prompted a drummer in his studio band to storm off the stage in mock outrage while bandleader Kevin Eubanks quipped: "Jay, you're messing around on me?"
(9) 'A modern revolutionary group headed for the television, not for the factory,' quipped the late Abbie Hoffman, one of the great political pranksters of 1968who helped provoke a bloody battle between anti-war protesters and the Chicago police force at the Chicago Democratic convention.
(10) "That's Putin for you – just divorced and already looking for new adventures," one Israeli diplomat quipped.
(11) There are two things you need to know about David Nicholson, runs the health service quip about the NHS chief executive.
(12) We still want your money.” 'The question was stupid': Hungarians on the refugee referendum Read more The quip is a reminder that while this weekend’s referendum in Hungary was born from similar frustrations to the Brexit vote in June, the Hungarian right does not want to leave the EU.
(13) The two men, from different political camps, have a polite relationship that has sometimes been barbed and punctuated by stinging Conservative quips about French leftwing tax-and-spend policies .
(14) Bill Shorten quip on lettuce leaves the vegetable starring in national debate Read more State government support would be needed to implement that package, but some have already ruled out supporting an increase.
(15) quips Andy Daly, a statement that needs no punchline, but he delivers one anyway.
(16) Just from looking at Boris Johnson you can tell that British hairdressing is not doing so well,” quipped one.
(17) "Young people were born free; soon they may be everywhere in chains," Hands quipped in an oblique reference to academy chains.
(18) Pressed on the issue at prime minister's questions, Cameron quipped that Labour had promised to fund the allowance "from savings we've made from our success in reducing debt".
(19) He also quipped that one of his female MPs had "sex appeal" and wasn't "just a pretty face".
(20) But the validity of the individual measures and the relationship between achievement of QUIP standards and resident quality was not firmly established.