adjective
suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness
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- thunderbolts quivered with elfin flares of heat lightning
- the fey quality was there, the ability to see the moon at midday"- John Mason Brown
adjective
small and delicate
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- she was an elfin creature--graceful and delicate
- obsessed by things elfin and small
adjective
relating to or made or done by or as if by an elf
Examples
- elfin bells
- all the little creatures joined in the elfin dance
adjective
usually good-naturedly mischievous
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- perpetrated a practical joke with elfin delight
- elvish tricks