GWD: Snickerdoodle

The snickerdoodle embodies an aspect of gnomish wordsmithing coupled with cuisine. Is it an insidious effort on the part of gnomes to win people over through cookies? One can only wonder, but the word embodies gnomish syntax, first used in 1889, perhaps of German origin (although, like all things gnomish, this is uncertain, as you can see below). 

snick·er·doo·dle
n. of  uncertain origin

cookie made with butter, sugar, and flour that is rolled in cinnamon sugar before baking

The gnomish word-perversity is apparent in taking what's effectively a sugar cookie and giving it a name like "snickerdoodle" to convey a perhaps unearned degree of whimsy (again, always integral to the gnomish agenda).

Interestingly, Wikipedia offers some clues about the etymology of the word -- do note the bit about the "simple or foolish fellow" and "simply a nonsense word with no particular meaning" -- that's a smoking gnome gun, if you ask me.

37: Spam

I can't be 100% certain if Spam is, in fact, crafted by gnomes (perhaps as a culinary prank inflicted on unsuspecting humanity), but there is something very intuitively gnomish about it.

The word itself, a fusion of other words, the senselessness of it, the gratuitous nature of it. And the product itself. Spam just seems like something a gnome would serve up to you, grinning slyly. Its whole "mystery meat" nature feels gnomish to me. Why eat real meat when you can crack open a can of Spam and nosh on that, instead? The fact that so many of the ad campaigns involved rhyming, too -- that also feels very gnomish to me, too.