(suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness; "thunderbolts quivered with elfin flares of heat lightning"; "the fey quality was there, the ability to see the moon at midday"- John Mason Brown)
(small and delicate; "she was an elfin creature
(relating to or made or done by or as if by an elf; "elfin bells"; "all the little creatures joined in the elfin dance")
(usually good-naturedly mischievous; "perpetrated a practical joke with elfin delight"; "elvish tricks")