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elfins

elfins is the plural of elfin.

Meaning of elfin

Noun

elfin (plural elfins)

  1. An elf; an inhabitant of fairy-land.
    • It was quite an expedition that Ida met, a kind of elfin's rout it looked in the moonlight, children and animals and a fairy-like presence with a face like a moon-lily, all scampering and squealing and whoofing and miauling in a merry game they were making of their progress.1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 291
  2. A little urchin or child.
  3. Any of the butterflies in the subgenus Incisalia of the North American lycaenid genus Callophrys.

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Questions about elfins

What is elfins the plural of?
Elfins is the plural of elfin.

Words near elfins in the dictionary

  1. elfing
  2. elfinkind
  3. Elfinland
  4. elfinly
  5. elfinness
  6. elfins
  7. elfinwood
  8. elfinwoods
  9. elfish
  10. elfishly
  11. elfishness

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