elfette

elf +‎ -ette

elfette (plural elfettes)

1. 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.

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