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English
Etymology
From the same origin as oaf (“elf child”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ouphe (plural ouphes)
- (obsolete) A small, often mischievous sprite; a fairy; a goblin; an elf.
c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Strew good luck, ouphes, on every ſacred room,
That it may ſtand 'till the perpetual Doom,
In ſtate as wholſom, as in ſtate 'tis fit;
Worthy the owner, as the owner it.
1835, Joseph Rodman Drake, “The Culprit Fay”, in The Culprit Fa, published 1899, page 4:For an Ouphe has broken his vestal vow;
He has loved an earthly maid,
And left for her his woodly shade;
- 1835, Review of The Culprit Fay and Other Poems by Joseph Rodman Drake and Alnwick Castle by Fitz-Greene Halleck, Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 2, page 329,
- The plot is as follows. An Ouphe, one of the race of Fairies, has "broken his vestal vow," in short, he has broken Fairy-law in becoming enamored of a mortal.