The word "elfish" is correct in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or something that has characteristics associated with elves, often implying a mischievous or playful nature.
Example: "Her elfish grin suggested she was up to something fun."
Alternatives: "Mischievous" or "Playful."
He was well cast as Puck in Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn's 1957 Shakespearean suite "Such Sweet Thunder" — his playing glowed with trickster energy and elfish glee.
Sitting atop and among the books were luxe ladies' accessories (a big Givenchy handbag, $2,055) and selections from shoe labels of obvious quality that were new to me: Laurence Dacade, embodied by a rather elfish motorcycle go-go boot; Méchante of London, maker of a pair of warrior sandals in black grosgrain ($673).
The wispy hair strands have been arranged in the cutest most adorable elfish coiffure!
Ely will soon begin teaching weeklong classes at the French Culinary Institute".I really want to revolutionize service," Mr. Ely, impeccably dressed and with a British accent and elfish grin, said".I'm tired of bad service".
A staff of 12, many of whom have worked there for years, baked and cooked with elfish efficiency.
A third spends much of his time mesmerized by a video game, imagining himself as "you, Djed, an ordinary elf from the forest" as he tries to save his elfish world from the grip of demons.
Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water-snakes: They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes.
1.07pm GMT 15th over: South Africa 62-4 (de Villiers 24, Duminy 5) Johnson starts slinging down a predictable but still menacing barage of short balls to the elfish Duminy, who can only find the splice of the bat when he tries to play a very late pull shot.
It was hard not to see it as a reflection of your own appeal: all of us suburban housewives swooning over your elfish sexiness.
When, jokingly, I ask Halla, a young urbanite from Reykjavik with startling blue eyes and elfish features, if she has seen one, I expect her to laugh but she doesn't.
