gremlinesque

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English

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Etymology

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gremlin +‎ -esque

Adjective

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gremlinesque (comparative more gremlinesque, superlative most gremlinesque)

  1. Like, or in the manner of, a gremlin.
    • 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 107:
      Gremlinesque behaviour might not be very obvious to an America, who would accept as perfectly natural the quaintly pixilated sayings and doings that are happening in subways, in trolleys, on buses, in bars at all times of the day and night.