English
Etymology
Gollum, name of a character in w:Middle-earth|Tolkien's Middle-earth + -ish.
Adjective
gollumish
#having similar traits to the character Gollum
#*making hissing sounds
#*using unusual speech
#*obsessive
#*sinister
Quotations
2003: "I do feel a bit Gollumish about it�" �alt.support.low-carb, 12 Nov 2003
2004: "With the gollumish Tony Blair never far away, urging him on, George W Bush doggedly climbed his own Mt Doom and thrust the Coalition of the Willing into the fire � along with a few thousand apparently expendable human lives." �The New Zealand Listener, Vol 191, "2003 reloaded", 27 Jan 2004
See also
my precious
w:Gollum|Wikipedia article on Gollum
Category:Tolkien's Middle-earth
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