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elfin

/el-fin/US // ˈɛl fɪn //UK // (ˈɛlfɪn) //

小精灵

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or like an elf.
    • : small and charmingly spritely, merry, or mischievous.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an elf.

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Examples

  • It wasn’t until my second full day here that Dody—an elfin woman in her late seventies with hip-length hair streaked gray—talked about the wrinkled work shirt and pair of jeans hanging on the back of a chair.

  • Mickey Rooney, the elfin actor who could pull out all the stops on stage and on film, died Sunday in Los Angeles at the age of 93.

  • Edmund Morgan, 97 Diminutive, almost elfin in appearance, he bestrode his field like a colossus.

  • Before these famous cartoons went viral, Santa was depicted either as a tall, thin, and less than jolly fellow or an elfin man.

  • In 1976, at the suggestion of Tony Marro, Mel Elfin hired him to be deputy Washington bureau chief.

  • Some were already apparent with Zane: clenched fists, elfin-like ears, small body weight, a weak cry, feeding difficulties.

  • That is the proper way to feed these elfin creatures of wood on whose backs little boys gallop through the land of dreams.

  • So still was the place that the caged cricket hanging from the eaves of Um's distant room beat time like an elfin metronome.

  • We walked on so together to the spot where we first had met, and where first the thrush had sounded for us his elfin clarion.

  • The word elfin, which became quite a common word, seems to have been invented by Spenser.

  • Why should the elfin's son be worse than the son of the devil himself?