Definitions for elfin

elfin elf·in

Spelling: [el-fin]
IPA: /ˈɛl fɪn/

Elfin is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in elfin (efiln).

Definitions for elfin

noun

  1. an elf.

adjective

  1. of or like an elf.
  2. small and charmingly spritely, merry, or mischievous.

Origin of elfin

1560-70; alteration of Middle English elven elf, Old English elfen, ælfen nymph, equivalent to ælf elf + -en feminine suffix (cognate with German -in); ælf cognate with German Alp nightmare,

Examples for elfin

It beat down the wheat and pattered like elfin bullets on the forest leaves.

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

Although the child was no beauty, she had an amusing, elfin air.

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

Then arose great revelry and feasting in the castle of the elfin Queen.

"I kick for joy," she said, her eyes shining with elfin delight.

They looked unearthly, elfin and strange, and in their own way they were beautiful.

"Then you're more of a silly even than I thought," said elfin.

She forgot that her boy was of elfin as well as of mortal race.

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.

Word Value for elfin
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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