28: Knock-Knock Joke

A weaponized pun, requiring its own section, is the Knock-Knock Joke, the gnomish comedic staple of kids everywhere, before they develop more nuanced senses of humor. Any adult doing a knock-knock joke should be lobbed from the roof of the nearest tall building, or at least marked as a gnomish agent.

27: Puns

Gnomes are all about puns, particularly bad puns. Really, really bad puns. What is gnomish about them? Everything. Their pointlessness, their silliness, and their annoyingness. Puns can get almost anybody to groan in irritation. Only gnomes (and their aspirants) take great satisfaction in puns, since they exploit ambiguities in language for (to gnomes) comedic effect.

GWD: Gewgaw

This is one that likely had a hyphen, but gnomes axed it. Origin unknown? Gnomes, dammit. It's just so obvious (and the meaning of it is very gnomish, too).

gew·gaw

Pronunciation: \ˈg(y)ü-(ˌ)gȯ\

Variant(s): also gee·gaw \ˈjē-, ˈgē-\

Function: noun

Etymology: origin unknown

Date: circa 1529

: a showy trifle : bauble, trinket