undershapen
English
Etymology
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Adjective
undershapen (comparative more undershapen, superlative most undershapen)
- (poetic, nonce word) Under the usual size; dwarfish; small.
- 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 22–23:
- His dwarf, a vicious under-shapen thing, / Struck at her with his whip, and she return'd / Indignant to the Queen; […]
Further reading
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “undershapen”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “undershapen”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.