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dwarvish

dwarvish is the alternative form of dwarfish.

Meaning of dwarfish

Adjective

dwarfish (comparative more dwarfish, superlative most dwarfish)

  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.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  2. Of, pertaining to, or made by or for dwarves.
    • Dwarfish axes are some of the finest weapons available.

Origin of dwarvish

A variant of dwarfish, coined by J. R. R. Tolkien. For -f → -vish, compare beevish, calvish, elvish, selvish, thievish, wivish, wolvish.

Questions about dwarvish

What is dwarvish the alternative form of?
Dwarvish is the alternative form of dwarfish.

Words near dwarvish in the dictionary

  1. dwarven
  2. dwarves
  3. dwarves standing on the shoulders of giants
  4. dwarvess
  5. dwarvesses
  6. dwarvish
  7. DWAs
  8. dwaum
  9. dwaumed
  10. dwauming
  11. dwaums

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dwarvish (page history and authors); dwarfish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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