Word: gnome
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Malchen's Gnome," is a sort of a fairy-tale of the Black Forest. It is extremely original, but perhaps more interesting to children than to students...
...that cigarette, will yer?" or similar remarks such as we have been accustomed to hear form the "mucker." It is manifestly impossible. Another theory that has been offered is that the "mucker" is a sort of gnome or underground sprite, bent on evil. Evidently this is a far more complete theory than the other, although it in turn fails in certain points. The latest theory is that they are a development or manifestation of Spencer's "Unknowable," and this brilliant thought is as yet receiving hearty approval. How long it will be accepted is, of course, another question...