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dwarfish
English
Etymology
dwarf +? -ish
Adjective
dwarfish (comparative more dwarfish, superlative most dwarfish)
- Like a dwarf; being especially small or stunted.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene 2, [1]
- […] now does he feel his title / Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe / Upon a dwarfish thief.
- 1757, Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Section XXIV, in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, London: John C. Nimmo, 1887, Volume I, p. 242, [2]
- Besides the extraordinary great in every species, the opposite to this, the dwarfish and diminutive, ought to be considered. Littleness, merely as such, has nothing contrary to the idea of beauty.
- 1843, Edgar Allan Poe, "The Gold-Bug" [3]
- The vegetation, as might be supposed, is scant, or at least dwarfish.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene 2, [1]
- Of, pertaining to, or made by or for dwarves.
- Dwarfish axes are some of the finest weapons available.
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elfin
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??lf?n/
- Rhymes: -?lf?n
Etymology 1
From Middle English elven, from Old English elfen, ælfen (“nymph, spirit, fairy”), feminine of elf, ælf (“elf”), equivalent to elf +? -en. Cognate with Middle High German elbinne (“a fairy, nymph”).
Noun
elfin (plural elfins)
- An elf; an inhabitant of fairy-land.
- A little urchin or child.
- Any of the butterflies in the subgenus Incisalia of the North American lycaenid genus Callophrys.
Etymology 2
Partly from attributive use of Etymology 1, but reanalysed by Spenser as if equivalent to elf +? -en. Compare elven (adj), elvan.
Adjective
elfin (comparative more elfin, superlative most elfin)
- Relating to or resembling an elf or elves, especially in its tiny size or features.
- Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with […] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
Translations
Synonyms
- see list in elven
Anagrams
- lifen, nifle
Dutch
Alternative forms
- elvin
Etymology
From elf +? -in.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l?f?n/
- Hyphenation: el?fin
- Rhymes: -?n
Noun
elfin f (plural elfinnen, diminutive elfinnetje n, masculine elf)
- A female elf (fantasy humanoid).
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