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How to pronounce elf in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms extremely low frequency
Type of radio frequency
Type Words
Synonyms brownie, gremlin, hob, imp, pixie, pixy
Type of fay, sprite, faery, fairy, faerie
Has types leprechaun, sandman

Examples of elf

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Here's my Elf Yourself in case you want to see my avatar dancing in an elf suit.
From the avc.com
Surfers wearing Santa and elf outfits showed up on the sand under drizzly skies.
From the ocregister.com
He finally remembers as he is being thrown down the exit slide by a grouchy elf.
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Dobby is Lucius Malfoy's elf and was trying his best to protect Harry from harm.
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While Vixen's team rebuilt a target, Comet readied his next elf partner, Gordon.
From the delawareonline.com
A jolly old elf rather than an illegitimate child, destined for an early death.
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A former elf starts trouble for Santa Claus and his daughter during the holidays.
From the post-gazette.com
Santa Claus, that jolly old elf, has brought a smile to kids all over the area.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Elf Island includes chat rooms and scores of games in addition to the GoodQuests.
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More examples
  • (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous
  • Extremely low frequency: below 3 kilohertz
  • (elves) an acronym for emissions of light and very low frequency perturbations due to electromagnetic pulse sources; extremely bright extremely short (less than a msec) electrical flashes forming a huge ring (up to 400 km diameter) in the ionosphere
  • An elf (plural: elves) is a type of supernatural being in Germanic mythology and folklore. Reconstructing the early concept of an elf depends almost entirely on texts in Old English or relating to Norse mythology. Later evidence for elves appears in diverse sources such as medical texts, prayers, ballads, and folktales.
  • In computing, the Executable and Linkable Format (ELF, formerly called Extensible Linking Format) is a common standard file format for executables, object code, shared libraries, and core dumps. ...
  • Elf is the first album by Ronnie James Dio's blues rock band called Elf. It was released in 1972. In this album, Dio is listed by his birth name Ronald Padavona. ...
  • Fairies, in the fictional series Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer, are beings, usually shorter than a human, who possess magic properties. The average height of a fairy is exactly 1 metre, one centimetre. All the fairies have retreated below the Earth to escape the destructiveness of the human race. ...
  • Elf was a blues-rock band founded in 1967 by the late singer and bassist Ronnie James Dio, keyboardist Doug Thaler, drummer Gary Driscoll, and guitarists Nick Pantas and David Feinstein (Dio's cousin). ...
  • In Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, elves are extradimensional inhuman monsters.