21: Accordion

Oh, yes. You knew it had to make an appearance. The accordion's one-man band capacity alone makes it prime fodder as an instrument of gnomish torture -- errr, musical expression. And the presence of a bellows, buttons, keys, and valves is simply intoxicating to the average gnome. It's very easy to imagine a group of gnomes jamming on their accordions, and tricking humanity into taking up the instrument and, naturally, looking (and sounding) ridiculous. Even pro-accordion propaganda can't dent the stupidity of it...

"Tom" is only able to impress the ladies because the electric guitar hasn't been invented, yet. Nothing like the fun of an accordion, Tom? How about sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll? Your days are numbered, gnomish sycophant!

GWD: Knickknack

And, while we're on the subject of unhyphenated nonsense compounds, here's another gnomish knickknack for you...

knick·knack
Variant(s): also nick·nack \ˈnik-ˌnak\

Function: noun

Etymology: reduplication of knack

Date: 1682

: a small trivial article usually intended for ornament

In this case, the gnomes probably got rid of the hyphen JUST to be annoying, since those two k's butting up against each other practically cry out for hyphenation, don't they? Or maybe it would just be too stilted for the folksy frolics of gnomish knick-knackery.

GWD: Hodgepodge

In "hodgepodge," the gnomes got a little trickier, perhaps, realizing that if they hyphenated all of their nonsensically-redundant words, we'd be onto them. So, they went with a closed compound, here, but the gnomishness (and gnomish sentiments) remain intact...

hodge·podge
Pronunciation: \ˈhäj-ˌpäj\
Function: noun
Etymology: alteration of hotchpotch
Date: 15th century

: a heterogeneous mixture : jumble