elfin

adjective

1. 1

   small and delicate

   she was an elfin creature--graceful and delicate

   obsessed by things elfin and small

2. 2

   suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness

   thunderbolts quivered with elfin flares of heat lightning

   the fey quality was there, the ability to see the moon at midday"- John Mason Brown

3. 3

   usually good-naturedly mischievous

   perpetrated a practical joke with elfin delight

   elvish tricks

4. 4

   relating to or made or done by or as if by an elf

   elfin bells

   all the little creatures joined in the elfin dance