elfette
English
Etymology
elf + -ette
Noun
elfette (plural elfettes)
- a female elf
- 1968 Geoffrey Atheling Wagner, Elegy for Corsica page 118
- 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
- 1974 Geoffrey Grigson, The Contrary View: Glimpses of Fudge and Gold page 18
- 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
- 1988 Raymond H. Ring, Telluride Smile, page 74
- 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.
- 1989 Charles Nelson, Panthers in the Skins of Men, page 17
- I'd like to look in my stocking and find a shapely elfette eager to scrub me under a hot shower.
- 1994 Geoffrey Atheling Wagner, A Singular Passion, page 93
- I hardly wanted my elfette laid up for the rest of her stay.
- 2011 Sheila Roberts, The Nine Lives of Christmas page 17
- He reached for something generic and the elfette gave a little gasp
- 2014 Revolving Doors: The True Account of the Full Spectrum of Fostering Abuses page 170
- 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.
- 2015 James Wynbrandt, The Excruciating History of Dentistry, page 273
- 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.
- 2016 Dr. David E. Miller, The Dawn of Tomorrow, page 144
- 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.
- 2019 Lani Lynn Vale, Quit Your Pitchin, page 109
- the Elf who was now starting to resemble recently getting out of the shower elfette, and not clean and dry elfette.
- 1968 Geoffrey Atheling Wagner, Elegy for Corsica page 118