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gollumish

gollumish adjective: having similar traits to the fictional character Gollum, including obsessiveness, sinisterness or talking in an unusual manner often punctuated by hissing sounds.

Adjective

gollumish (comparative more gollumish, superlative most gollumish)

  1. (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

Forms of gollumish

comparativemore gollumish
superlativemost gollumish

Origin of gollumish

From Gollum + -ish.

Questions about gollumish

What does gollumish mean?
Gollumish means having similar traits to the fictional character Gollum, including obsessiveness, sinisterness or talking in an unusual manner often punctuated by hissing sounds.
What part of speech is gollumish?
Gollumish is an adjective.

Words near gollumish in the dictionary

  1. golls
  2. Gollum
  3. Gollumed
  4. Gollumesque
  5. Golluming
  6. gollumish
  7. Gollums
  8. gollumshark
  9. gollumsharks
  10. golly
  11. golly gee

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