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Definition of elfin in English: elfinadjective ˈɛlfɪnˈɛlfən 1(of a person or their face) small and delicate, typically with a mischievous charm. （人或脸）小精灵似的；娇小的；小淘气的；有奇异魅力的 her black hair suited her elfin face 她的黑头发与她小精灵似的脸很相配。 Example sentencesExamples - Behind me, the door had burst open, and another tall and handsome elfin boy, of about the same age was standing in the doorway, gaping at me.
- She had a tiny elfin face, and huge green eyes with flecks of brown.
- Her curling red hair stilled itself around her shoulders, framing her pale, elfin face.
- ‘It has a nice vibe’ I say to her as we walk to the house, her smile broadening, her long brown hair framing her pale, elfin face.
- She was beautiful in an unconventional way, triangular elfin face with big, expressive eyes and a lithe body.
- Mostly they're cartoons of fairies that share Bobbie's slim elfin face, cupid's bow lips and wide-set, almond-shaped eyes.
- One of them was tall, with a dark power surrounding him like an aura with long, raven hair pulled back from an angelic, elfin face.
- In another one of Random Acts's monologues, a petite, elfin woman in a peach sweater squares herself off at the confessor's table, and begins to talk with a slight southern lilt.
- Dark shading created sharp cheekbones of elfin faces, softer blending produced squashier, round ones.
- It was a sharp contrast between the two champions: the tall, handsome, adult human male and the much shorter, cute, little elfin girl.
- In the end, the tale of an elfin waitress who spreads happiness among her unwitting friends and neighbours grossed £90m.
- ‘I was beautiful before,’ she says, touching a pretty, elfin face miraculously unscathed by the blaze that engulfed her body last summer.
- Vanessa sits cross-legged on her bed in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, a tiny, elfin figure with a striking, delicate face that looks as if it has been gently chiselled from creamy alabaster.
- Saddle Creek's that Omaha-centric label run by that elfin fellow with the bright eyes.
- The introduction - oddly named as it contains many major spoilers - is a welcome chance to hear the effervescent, elfin man discuss his themes and modifications to Gorky's work.
- If only she had more to do than play the pixie: we get awfully familiar with the tilted-down, shot-from-above disposition of her elfin face because not much else goes on with her.
- The dress wasn't low cut, but in truth she didn't have a lot of cleavage to reveal, her figure being quite elfin.
- The tiny, elfin figure that is Canada's most lauded novelist is sipping cappuccino from a china cup in an opulent hotel lounge.
- She is lovely, jet black long hair, elfin face, pale white skin and a great figure.
- After the signing, at the pub next door, I sat next to a dark, vaguely elfin gentleman named Colin Greenland who seemed to know a lot about the field and who, when I mentioned that I had written a handful of stories, asked to see them.
Synonyms elflike, elfish, elvish, pixie-like puckish, impish, playful, mischievous dainty, delicate, small, petite, slight, little, tiny, diminutive 2Relating to elves. 与精灵有关的；有魔力的，有法术的 an enchanted world of fairies in elfin glades 林中仙女生活的魔幻世界。 Example sentencesExamples - At the end these figures are succeeded by silence, at the beginning they're interrupted by elfin voices.
- Albion sometimes cursed the elfin blood that made him permanently obediant to the evil Obsidian.
- The card itself was beautiful and came with an elfin poem inside, the painting of Galadriel is by Josephine Wall.
- It was no longer there but it was replaced with a sun of elfin crafting.
- It only lies in the heart of elfin land!
- Well, I bring you a cautionary tale from the elfin handbook.
- Makino's singing highlight may appear on "Magic Mountain," where her sweet, elfin melodies tell a tale of time on a mountain, stricken with loneliness.
- She has the elfin air of a creature from the romances of chivalry.
- While they employ neither the soaring grandeur of Sigur Rós nor the elfin idiosyncrasy of Björk, the music of the Múm quartet is unequivocally Icelandic.
- If any thing indicated the passing of time it was the rhythm of elfin horns blowing upon the heights.
- He pointed to an elfin house, a purple shell that looked like a vertical sand dollar.
- Our readers may also recall that he has never been one to work a lot of elfin magic with the art of the Direct Statement in the first place.
- All those years spent partying too long and too hard have not taken their toll on her elfin beauty.
- The elfin courses went to great lengths to outdo their competitors.
- Apparently, regular Puffs doesn't come with special elfin magic like the other two do.
- I can understand the language since birth, and I know the elfin ways.
- It rises like a green baroque elfin city.
- The other was not of the same delicate blood as the elfin horses.
- Still, she is relaxed, her elfin features creased in a permanent smile.
- A Midsummer Night's Dream will transport you to an enchanted world of fairies in elfin glades, love and romance in rural Tuscany.
noun ˈɛlfɪnˈɛlfən 1archaic An elf. 〈古〉小精灵 Example sentencesExamples - A small shudder ran through the elfin's body, and she turned her face away from him.
- And Yarthe was empty, but for the elfin, and the elfin quite naturally took it for theirs.
- A combative elfin gets a mission to snaffle a magic book in the country of Moria.
- His clan was that of no other, contrary to the beliefs of all other races, Masheleec Urik conceived that the Duroug elfins were a striking image of some god, whose obligation it was to drive all other races to the brink of utter destruction.
2A small North American butterfly that is typically brownish with markings on the wing margins that give the impression of scalloped edges. 北美小灰蝶 Genus Incisalia, family Lycaenidae
OriginLate 16th century: from elf, probably suggested by Middle English elvene 'of elves', and by Elphin, the name of a character in Arthurian romance. Definition of elfin in US English: elfinadjectiveˈelfənˈɛlfən 1(with reference to a person) small and delicate, typically with an attractively mischievous or strange charm. （人或脸）小精灵似的；娇小的；小淘气的；有奇异魅力的 she looked up at him with an elfin grin Example sentencesExamples - In the end, the tale of an elfin waitress who spreads happiness among her unwitting friends and neighbours grossed £90m.
- Behind me, the door had burst open, and another tall and handsome elfin boy, of about the same age was standing in the doorway, gaping at me.
- ‘It has a nice vibe’ I say to her as we walk to the house, her smile broadening, her long brown hair framing her pale, elfin face.
- It was a sharp contrast between the two champions: the tall, handsome, adult human male and the much shorter, cute, little elfin girl.
- If only she had more to do than play the pixie: we get awfully familiar with the tilted-down, shot-from-above disposition of her elfin face because not much else goes on with her.
- The tiny, elfin figure that is Canada's most lauded novelist is sipping cappuccino from a china cup in an opulent hotel lounge.
- She had a tiny elfin face, and huge green eyes with flecks of brown.
- The introduction - oddly named as it contains many major spoilers - is a welcome chance to hear the effervescent, elfin man discuss his themes and modifications to Gorky's work.
- Saddle Creek's that Omaha-centric label run by that elfin fellow with the bright eyes.
- After the signing, at the pub next door, I sat next to a dark, vaguely elfin gentleman named Colin Greenland who seemed to know a lot about the field and who, when I mentioned that I had written a handful of stories, asked to see them.
- Mostly they're cartoons of fairies that share Bobbie's slim elfin face, cupid's bow lips and wide-set, almond-shaped eyes.
- The dress wasn't low cut, but in truth she didn't have a lot of cleavage to reveal, her figure being quite elfin.
- Vanessa sits cross-legged on her bed in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, a tiny, elfin figure with a striking, delicate face that looks as if it has been gently chiselled from creamy alabaster.
- One of them was tall, with a dark power surrounding him like an aura with long, raven hair pulled back from an angelic, elfin face.
- Her curling red hair stilled itself around her shoulders, framing her pale, elfin face.
- ‘I was beautiful before,’ she says, touching a pretty, elfin face miraculously unscathed by the blaze that engulfed her body last summer.
- Dark shading created sharp cheekbones of elfin faces, softer blending produced squashier, round ones.
- She was beautiful in an unconventional way, triangular elfin face with big, expressive eyes and a lithe body.
- In another one of Random Acts's monologues, a petite, elfin woman in a peach sweater squares herself off at the confessor's table, and begins to talk with a slight southern lilt.
- She is lovely, jet black long hair, elfin face, pale white skin and a great figure.
Synonyms elflike, elfish, elvish, pixie-like 2Relating to elves. 与精灵有关的；有魔力的，有法术的 an enchanted world of fairies in elfin glades 林中仙女生活的魔幻世界。 Example sentencesExamples - It rises like a green baroque elfin city.
- Our readers may also recall that he has never been one to work a lot of elfin magic with the art of the Direct Statement in the first place.
- I can understand the language since birth, and I know the elfin ways.
- It was no longer there but it was replaced with a sun of elfin crafting.
- The other was not of the same delicate blood as the elfin horses.
- While they employ neither the soaring grandeur of Sigur Rós nor the elfin idiosyncrasy of Björk, the music of the Múm quartet is unequivocally Icelandic.
- Apparently, regular Puffs doesn't come with special elfin magic like the other two do.
- A Midsummer Night's Dream will transport you to an enchanted world of fairies in elfin glades, love and romance in rural Tuscany.
- She has the elfin air of a creature from the romances of chivalry.
- Still, she is relaxed, her elfin features creased in a permanent smile.
- At the end these figures are succeeded by silence, at the beginning they're interrupted by elfin voices.
- The card itself was beautiful and came with an elfin poem inside, the painting of Galadriel is by Josephine Wall.
- The elfin courses went to great lengths to outdo their competitors.
- Well, I bring you a cautionary tale from the elfin handbook.
- If any thing indicated the passing of time it was the rhythm of elfin horns blowing upon the heights.
- It only lies in the heart of elfin land!
- Albion sometimes cursed the elfin blood that made him permanently obediant to the evil Obsidian.
- All those years spent partying too long and too hard have not taken their toll on her elfin beauty.
- He pointed to an elfin house, a purple shell that looked like a vertical sand dollar.
- Makino's singing highlight may appear on "Magic Mountain," where her sweet, elfin melodies tell a tale of time on a mountain, stricken with loneliness.
nounˈelfənˈɛlfən 1archaic An elf. 〈古〉小精灵 Example sentencesExamples - And Yarthe was empty, but for the elfin, and the elfin quite naturally took it for theirs.
- A combative elfin gets a mission to snaffle a magic book in the country of Moria.
- His clan was that of no other, contrary to the beliefs of all other races, Masheleec Urik conceived that the Duroug elfins were a striking image of some god, whose obligation it was to drive all other races to the brink of utter destruction.
- A small shudder ran through the elfin's body, and she turned her face away from him.
2A small North American butterfly that is typically brownish with markings on the wing margins that give the impression of scalloped edges. 北美小灰蝶 Genus Incisalia, family Lycaenidae
OriginLate 16th century: from elf, probably suggested by Middle English elvene ‘of elves’, and by Elphin, the name of a character in Arthurian romance. |