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Meaning of elfin

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  elfin
      adj 1: 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 [syn: {elfin},
             {fey}]
      2: small and delicate; "she was an elfin creature--graceful and
         delicate"; "obsessed by things elfin and small" [syn:
         {elfin}, {elflike}]
      3: relating to or made or done by or as if by an elf; "elfin
         bells"; "all the little creatures joined in the elfin dance"
      4: usually good-naturedly mischievous; "perpetrated a practical
         joke with elfin delight"; "elvish tricks" [syn: {elfin},
         {elfish}, {elvish}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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