The gnome king of the Giant Mountains. (Musæus: Popular Tales.)
“She was like one of those portly dowagers in Number Nip’s society of metamorphose and turnips.”—Le Fanu: The House in the Churchyard, p. 132.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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