lutin

• The Nain Rouge, French for "red dwarf" or "red gnome" is a mythical creature that originated in Normandy, France, as a type of lutin (the French name, male, for a type of hobgoblin (an amusing goblin), in French folklore and fairy tales; females are called lutines). —  Cryptomundo
• When you're in doubt--freeze CHAPTER V THE FLOCK The Bishop's flock consisted of two distinct classes: Cottontowners and Hillites There's only a fair sprinklin' of Hillites that lives nigh about here," said the Bishop, "an' they come because it suits them better than the high f'lutin' services in town. —  The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills
• [535] But generally the family ghost has become a brownie, lutin, or pooka, haunting the hearth and doing the household work. —  The Religion of the Ancient Celts
• The Latin term originally designates, not a man's everyday intellect, but a spirit from without which inspires him, like the "Daemon," or, in Latin, "Genius" of Socrates, or the lutin which rode the pen of Moliere. —  Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown
• As a force making toward things high-fi-lutin, if not actually un-American, I was again discussed. —  A Daughter of the Middle Border

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