Definitions for elfish

elfish elf·ish

Spelling: [el-fish]
IPA: /ˈɛl fɪʃ/

Elfish is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in elfish (efhils).

Definitions for elfish

adjective

  1. elflike; elfin; small and mischievous.

Origin of elfish

First recorded in 1535-45; alteration of elvish

Examples for elfish

Her elfish eyes roved challengingly from one girl to the other.

She had the elfish look of a little withered fairy godmother.

It was startlingly white, and in a strange, elfish kind of way, beautiful.

A pair of elfish black eyes were fixed upon her in curious intent.

Anger, surprise and chagrin swept the elfish face of the French girl.

She had been with him, smiling, elfish and tender one moment, and gone the next.

Our elfish guides led us back along the trail to the farmhouse.

And as she spoke the elfish eyes gleamed strangely into his own.

Meanwhile the princess was not at all unhappy in the palace of her elfish lover.

"I don't like you," he said slowly, regarding the Hun, with his elfish eyes.

Word Value for elfish
Scrable

12

Words with friends

12

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