ouphe

1. (obsolete) A small, often mischievous sprite; a fairy; a goblin; an elf.Examples: "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."; "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."obsolete