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elfin

adjective
  1. small and delicate
    “They were an elfin creature--graceful and delicate.”
    elflike
  2. suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness
    “thunderbolts quivered with elfin flares of heat lightning”
    fey
  3. usually good-naturedly mischievous
    “perpetrated a practical joke with elfin delight”
    elfishelvish
  4. relating to or made or done by or as if by an elf
    “elfin bells”