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- adjective informal Having similar traits to the fictional character
Gollum , includingobsessiveness ,sinisterness ortalking in an unusual manner often punctuated byhissing sounds.
Etymologies
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Gollum, name of a character in Tolkien's Middle-earth + -ish.
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Gollumly and gollumlike (both presumably from the German *gollumlich): of a creature having the Gollumn-nature, those characteristics proper to that nature; gollumish (G. *gollumisch) characteristics of Gollum found in a creature to which such characteristics are not natural.
Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time 1: the Eye of the World (1990) Adam Roberts 2010
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