oh those crazy words

So I'm reading quite a funny book (Fin by James Delingpole) and this line in particular caught my eye, "and he says something gnomic like 'I know not of your pod."
Now, I've never heard the word gnomic. I can't figure out exactly what it means from the context, but it sounds like it could be good. And because I'm a huge geek, I get excited 'cause I don't often come across interesting sounding words that I don't know the meaning of.
So I look it up.
Gnomic: relating to or containing gnomes.
Now I am crushed because rather than being a spangly new word to describe something of great import or something esoteric ( the way it sounds like it should), it actually refers to gnomes. And I realise the times that I may be able to slip the word gnomic casually into conversation will be rare and likely involve a game of Dungeons and Dragons. And because I boycotted Dungeons and Dragons a few years ago because it takes way to long to develop your character even before you abandon days if not weeks to actually playing it, I doubt it will ever happen.

(by the way, the definition of gnomic that reads 'containing gnomes' means in a poem or book, not for example, in a soup).