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Definition of Elfin
1. Adjective. Suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness. "The fey quality was there, the ability to see the moon at midday"
2. Adjective. Small and delicate. "Obsessed by things elfin and small"
3. Adjective. Relating to or made or done by or as if by an elf. "All the little creatures joined in the elfin dance"
4. Adjective. Usually good-naturedly mischievous. "Elvish tricks"
Definition of Elfin
1. a. Relating to elves.
2. n. A little elf or urchin.
Definition of Elfin
1. Noun. An elf; an inhabitant of fairy-land. ¹
2. Noun. A little urchin or child. ¹
3. Adjective. Relating to or resembling an elf, especially in its tiny size or features. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Elfin
1. an elf [n -S] - See also: elf
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elfin
Literary usage of Elfin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Collected Poems by Alfred Noyes (1920)
"THE elfin ARTIST AND OTHER POEMS THE elfin ... IN a glade of an elfin forest When
Sussex was Eden-new ..."
2. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"Long since, beneath Dunfermline's пате, King Alexander fills his grave, Yet still
the knightly spear and shield Our Lady give him rest ! 500 The elfin ..."
3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"THE elfin MOUND SEVERAL large lizards were running quickly into the cleft of an
... What a noise there is in the old elfin mound! " said one of the Lizards. ..."
4. The Ballads of Scotland by William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1859)
"Messrs Kinloch and Buchan have recovered copies from recitation, and the following
has been framed by collation. THE elfin knight stands on yon hill; (Blaw, ..."
5. Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry edited by Epes Sargent (1882)
"For this the shadowy tribes of air To tho elfin court must hasto away : And now
... thine elfin chain ; Thy llame-wood lamp is quenched and dark, ..."
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