Crossword clues for elfish
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Elfish \Elf"ish\, a.
Of or relating to the elves; elflike; implike; weird;
scarcely human; mischievous, as though caused by elves.
``Elfish light.''
--Coleridge.
The elfish intelligence that was so familiar an
expression on her small physiognomy.
--Hawthorne.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 Characteristic of an elf 2 mischievous
WordNet
Usage examples of "elfish".
It was easy to imagine that this desolate region, not frequented by mankind, was the playground of unbenign spirits, and he fancied, as the Pacha had done, that elfish beings scoffed among the pines upon the plain.
Jock Binning, crutched and with an elfish face and figure and voice, had pulled down upon himself the office of revelator.
And he'd bring odd assorted boards and whatnot, and impossible bookshelves, all kinds of things, and years later I had further Three Stooges adventures with him going out to his house in Contra Costa (which he owned and rented) and spending impossible-to-believe afternoons when he paid me two dollars an hour for hauling out bucket after bucket of mudslime which he himself was doling out of a flooded cellar by hand, black and mud-covered as Tartarilouak the King of the Mudslimes of Paratioalaouakak Span, with a secret grin of elfish delight on his face.