sylphish

English

Etymology

sylph +‎ -ish

Adjective

sylphish (comparative more sylphish, superlative most sylphish)

1. (archaic) Resembling or characteristic of a sylph; sylphlike.
   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, “The Diamond Necklace”, in Fraser's Magazine:

     All these on a neck of snow slight-tinged with rose-bloom, and within it royal Life: amidst the blaze of lustres ; in sylphish movements, espiegleries, coquetries, and minuet-mazes[.]

References

• “sylphish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.