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elvish

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elv·ish  (lvsh)
adj.
Variant of elfish.
elvish [ˈɛlvɪʃ]
adj
a variant of elfish
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Adj.1.elvish - usually good-naturedly mischievous; "perpetrated a practical joke with elfin delight"; "elvish tricks"
elfish, elfin
playful - full of fun and high spirits; "playful children just let loose from school"
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Once this freakish, elvish cast came into the child's eyes while Hester was looking at her own image in them, as mothers are food of doing; and suddenly for women in solitude, and with troubled hearts, are pestered with unaccountable delusions she fancied that she beheld, not her own miniature portrait, but another face in the small black mirror of Pearl's eye.
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
 
 
 
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