homelike

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Every Christmas, my family would haul out our plastic tomte, a gnomelike figure who parcels out gifts to local youths at Jul, sometimes with the assistance of a Yule goat.

From Slate • Dec. 11, 2015

I follow him, hoping it is a rare early photo of the author, but it is just a cheap color enlargement of the familiar bald, thickly bespectacled, gnomelike Narayan in his final years.

From Time Magazine Archive

A heavy scarlet robe covered his gnomelike figure.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dr. Millis was expected to range his hefty, slow-moving bulk alongside gnomelike, conservative Dr. Leiserson.

From Time Magazine Archive

Frenham pounced on him in the same instant, with a sidewise glance of victory at me; but Culwin cowered gnomelike among his cushions, dissembling himself in a protective cloud of smoke.

From Tales of Men and Ghosts by Wharton, Edith