gnome

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A couple have won a legal battle over a tiny strip of grass outside their house, after a neighbour tried to claim it as their own with a garden gnome.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2026

Goodman: I took a garden gnome from the kitchen.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2025

Previous publicity for Vengeance Most Fowl revealed te film will see Wallace develop a "smart gnome" that seems to have a mind of its own.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2024

“We’ll probably sell it,” Pam Threlkheld of Ninety Six, South Carolina, said after purchasing a gnome on Saturday.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 13, 2024

“And when might that be?” squeaked the irate gnome, brandishing a notebook as though she were prepared to make a complaint of some kind.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer