elf-man

English

Noun

elf-man (plural elf-men)

  1. An adult male elf.
    • 1845, Eric Gustave Geijer, The History of the Swedes, London: Whittaker and Co., page 17, column 2:
      The wick and elf-men were, from the very character of their country, Wikingers, a hardy and stubborn race, who lived by the sea, and bore no good reputation.
    • 1851, Benjamin Thorpe, Northern Mythology, volume II, London: Edward Lumley, page 128:
      Here the woman learned that the Elf-wife could not be delivered without the aid of a Christian woman, she being herself a Christian, but had been carried off by the Elf-man.
    • 1888, Charles M. Doughty, Travel in Arabia Deserta, volume II, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 192:
      In the midst of the way that old elf-man stood again in his sight, and said, “Salaam aleyk! - Sawest thou my son, and hast thou brought me aught from him?”
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