Dictionary

elfette en · NOUN

Etymology

From elf + -ette.

Meanings

1. A female elf.
   • For as the girls pass by in this very pure phase of their lives, flamingo-limbed with that articulation of the true elfette, I most sadly recall the fact that in every interview I've read every allu- meuse without exception has wanted one thing more than any other in life 1968, Geoffrey Atheling Wagner, Elegy for Corsica, page 118:
   • the Elf who was now starting to resemble recently getting out of the shower elfette, and not clean and dry elfette. 2019, Lani Lynn Vale, Quit Your Pitchin, page 109:
   • An elfette wearing thigh garters and a derby and not much else took my order. People were packing into the place for the designer hamburgers and avant-garde soups and an array of purported Mexican food. 1988, Raymond H. Ring, Telluride Smile, page 74:
   • Mom dropped me off at Liz's house for the final fitting of the elf costume and the make-up job. Liz told me that the costumes would be green because her elfette costume was really a pregnant leprechauness outfit that her older sister had used in a school play. 2016, Dr. David E. Miller, The Dawn of Tomorrow, page 144:
   • Before I know it, my time with Santa is over, and the diminutive, green, elfette lady is lifting me down off Santa's expansive knees. 2014, Revolving Doors: The True Account of the Full Spectrum of Fostering Abuses, page 170:
   • I'd like to look in my stocking and find a shapely elfette eager to scrub me under a hot shower. 1989, Charles Nelson, Panthers in the Skins of Men, page 17:
   • He reached for something generic and the elfette gave a little gasp 2011, Sheila Roberts, The Nine Lives of Christmas, page 17:
   • Curator Rosemary Wells, Ph.D., of the Northwestern University Dental School, has collected over 500 tooth fairy figurines and portraits along with a library of books about the ethereal elfette. 2015, James Wynbrandt, The Excruciating History of Dentistry, page 273:
   • I hardly wanted my elfette laid up for the rest of her stay. 1994, Geoffrey Atheling Wagner, A Singular Passion, page 93:
   • At forty, after a bad illness, the Secretary of the Bank entangles himself with a girl - decidedly - of thirty-seven, half courted, half parried by him in letters of the most glucose baby talk. She is an elfette, an elfin art-adorer, who had been a little girl 1974, Geoffrey Grigson, The Contrary View: Glimpses of Fudge and Gold, page 18:

Forms

Synonyms

elfess