Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See elfish, elfishly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pertaining to elves; implike; mischievous; weird; also, vacant; absent in demeanor. See elfish.
  • adjective obsolete Mysterious; also, foolish.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or having to do with elves.
  • adjective elfin.

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  • adjective usually good-naturedly mischievous

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Examples

  • Seattle downtown- some kind of elvish creatures are climbing the building

    Galactic North patternjuggler 2003

  • Seattle downtown- some kind of elvish creatures are climbing the building

    Archive 2003-12-22 patternjuggler 2003

  • To make a Secondary World inside which the green sun will be credible, commanding Secondary Belief, will probably require labour and thought, and will certainly demand a special skill, a kind of elvish craft.

    Kicking the Hobbit Hodgart, Matthew 1967

  • Hearing which the neat, shining, dimpling little Advocate turned his bright eyes from one to the other of us, and tapped his tortoise-shell snuffbox with a kind of elvish joy.

    The Dew of Their Youth 1887

  • Olof Arnalds has one of the most distinctive voices around - only in part because she's from Iceland and usually warbles her folk-flavored tunes in her native Nordic tongue, a language often described as "elvish" think

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • Olof Arnalds has one of the most distinctive voices around - only in part because she's from Iceland and usually warbles her folk-flavored tunes in her native Nordic tongue, a language often described as "elvish" think

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • Olof Arnalds has one of the most distinctive voices around - only in part because she's from Iceland and usually warbles her folk-flavored tunes in her native Nordic tongue, a language often described as "elvish" think

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • I'll just post it here, but be warned: this is elvish, treehugging drivel.

    Sairahiniel's Sermon nathreee 2010

  • My character at Omen is a woodelf priestess of the Goddess of Nature, and I had prepared a small elvish sermon this weekend, but with all the battles there was no time for it.

    Sairahiniel's Sermon nathreee 2010

  • I'll be honest: the most exciting thing about the film for me was that the climactic segment is set in a steampunk elvish subterranean vault under the Giant's Causeway.

    Linkspam for 10-6-2009 nwhyte 2009

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