单词 | elfin |
释义 | elf·in I. 1. a. < elfin bells > < all the little creatures joined in the elfin dance > b. < the elfin adventurous time when tall weeds closed over us like woods — G.K.Chesterton > 2. a. < a little elfin man whose reddish hair was beginning to thin and gray — W.A.White > < apparently was obsessed by things elfin and small — Green Peyton > b. < unfailingly shows poetic insight and elfin liveliness of fancy — American Guide Series: Ind. > < his touch was light, crisp, and somehow deliciously comic; he could start the keys into elfin life — J.B.Priestley > c. < with elfin delight he perpetuated a successful practical joke — J.A.Morris b. 1904 > d. < a strange elfin creature > < thunderheads quivered with the elfin flares of the heat lightning — Edwin Granberry > II. 1. 2. |
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