Dwarfess
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Dwarfess is a noun meaning (fantasy) A female of the dwarf race.
Meaning
(fantasy) A female of the dwarf race.
More Meanings
- (dated) A human female dwarf.
Example Sentences
Beside him stood a dwarfess, even smaller than he was, snub-nosed and doll-faced.
She was a silver-haired, rather portly dwarfess...and the most powerful enchantress in Ilsdale, if not in the known world.
Opening the door, I immediately see a stout dwarfess, probably the owner, behind a counter and a group of young cat-people girls in aprons serving food and alcohol to customers.
“I have no idea what they will do with it,” he [Vladimir Nabokov] said. “Of course they will have to change the plot. Perhaps they will make Lolita a dwarfess. Or they will make her 16 and Humbert 26. I just don’t know. It’s difficult to translate a book into a movie.”
Word Forms
- dwarfesses
- dwarvess
Synonyms for dwarfess
Depending on context, synonyms include dwarfette, dwarfmaid, dwarrowdam.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dwarfling, dwarfdom, weredwarf, dwarf, dwarrowdam, dwarfism.
Related Dictionary Tools
Sources & Attribution
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.