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English
Etymology
From under- + shapen.
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undershapen (comparative more undershapen, superlative most undershapen)
- (poetic, nonce word) Under the usual size; dwarfish; small.
1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., , →OCLC, pages 22–23:His dwarf, a vicious under-shapen thing, / Struck at her with his whip, and she return'd / Indignant to the Queen; […]
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