Meaning of ELFIN
| Pronunciation: | | 'elfin
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- [adj] small and delicate; "she was an elfin creature--graceful and delicate"; "obsessed by things elfin and small"
- [adj] suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness; "thunderbolts quivered with elfin flares of heat lightning"; "the fey quality was there, the ability to see the moon at midday"- John Mason Brown
- [adj] usually good-naturedly mischievous; "perpetrated a practical joke with elfin delight"; "elvish tricks"
- [adj] relating to or made or done by or as if by an elf; "elfin bells"; "all the little creatures joined in the elfin dance"
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| | Synonyms: | | elfish, elflike, elvish, fey, little, playful, small, supernatural |
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\Elf"in\ (-[i^]n), a.
Relating to elves.
\Elf"in\, n.
A little elf or urchin. --Shenstone.
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| | Related Terms: | | arch, dainty, diminutive, dumpy, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, elfish, elflike, elvish, faery, fairy, fairyish, fairylike, fay, frolicsome, gnomelike, gnomish, impish, incipient, Lilliputian, little, meager, midget, mischievous, nanoid, pixieish, playful, puckish, pygmy, rudimental, rudimentary, runty, scraggy, scrubby, shriveled, shrunk, shrunken, small, sprightly, squat, stunted, sylphidine, sylphine, sylphish, sylphlike, sylphy, tiny, Tom Thumb, tricky, undersize, undersized, wee, wizened |
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