Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small, often mischievous creature considered to have magical powers.
- noun A lively, mischievous child.
- noun A usually sprightly or mischievous or sometimes spiteful person.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To entangle intricately, as the hair.
- noun An imaginary being superstitiously supposed to inhabit unfrequented places, and in various ways to affect mankind; a sprite; a fairy; a goblin.
- noun A mischievous or wicked person; a knave; a rogue.
- noun A diminutive person; a dwarf; hence, a pet name for a child, especially one who is very sprightly and graceful.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An imaginary supernatural being, commonly a little sprite, much like a fairy; a mythological diminutive spirit, supposed to haunt hills and wild places, and generally represented as delighting in mischievous tricks.
- noun A very diminutive person; a dwarf.
- noun a flint arrowhead; -- so called by the English rural folk who often find these objects of prehistoric make in the fields and formerly attributed them to fairies; -- called also
elf bolt ,elf dart , andelf shot . - noun a child supposed to be left by elves, in room of one they had stolen. See
Changeling . - noun the ignis fatuus.
- noun (Zoöl.) a small owl (
Micrathene Whitneyi ) of Southern California and Arizona. - transitive verb To entangle mischievously, as an elf might do.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
mythical ,supernatural being resembling but seen as distinct fromhumans . - noun Norse mythology A luminous
spirit presiding over nature and fertility and dwelling in the world ofÁlfheim (Elfland ). Compareangel ,nymph ,fairy . - noun fantasy Any of the magical, humanoid, typically forest-guarding races bearing some similarities to the Norse
álfar (through Tolkien's Eldar).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous
- noun below 3 kilohertz
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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My books have almost none of that, and the term elf is never used though Tolkein's elves are probably close to my high court sidhe in appeance but where I always felt the elves in his world would never want to get dirty enough to have really good, squealchy sex, my sidhe are very sensual and very sexual beings.
LKH Blog 2009
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(The elf is not the most courageous of our heroes, unfortunately) While reforging the key to the door that would lead them even deeper down, the heroes were overrun by enemies, but the key was ready mere seconds before they had to make a hasty retreat.
Weekend heroes in the Great Barrows nathreee 2009
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And the question becomes: can an elf be classified as a space chick, even if the elf is - technically speaking - in space?
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** Simply*Sam**: zooey singing in elf skip to main | skip to sidebar
zooey singing in elf Sam 2009
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Marcus, who works in a mall as an elf is definitely an angry elf.
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In fact, the only thing that can put the hurt on an elf is iron.
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Now we know the sourpuss house elf is going to play a big element later.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » MOVIE ANALYSIS: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Part 2 2007
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No elf is going to sprinkle fairy dust on them and make them fall in love with us.
Think Progress » Sen. Edward Kennedy says voting against the Iraq war 2006
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After celebrating their roots (Santa, wife, and elves are all black, I should probably note) the jolly old elf is so pleased that he takes everyone up for a big old sleigh ride, lighting up the sky with colors (ala the Northern Lights) that wish everyone in the world peace and goodwill.
Review of the Day: Santa's Kwanzaa fusenumber8 2006
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I myself know relatively little about Kwanzaa, so the section in the back in which each elf is named and given a definition, (example: “Ujima is responsible for solving problems”) passed way way over my head.
Review of the Day: Santa's Kwanzaa fusenumber8 2006
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