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Sprite vs Ouphe - What's the difference?

sprite | ouphe |

As nouns the difference between sprite and ouphe

is that sprite is (mythology) a spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition while ouphe is (obsolete) a small, often mischievous sprite; a fairy; a goblin; an elf.

sprite

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Noun

(wikipedia sprite) (en noun)
  • (mythology) A spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition.
  • *1803 , William Blake,
  • *:He who torments the chafer's sprite
  • *:Weaves a bower in endless night.
  • (mythology) An elf; a fairy; a goblin.
  • The green woodpecker, or yaffle.
  • (computer graphics) A two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene.
  • An electrical discharge that occurs high above the cumulonimbus cloud of an active thunderstorm.

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    ouphe

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    * aulf

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A small, often mischievous sprite; a fairy; a goblin; an elf.
  • * 1602 , '', Act 5, Scene 4, 1768, John Baskerville, Alexander Pope (editors), ''The Works of Shakespear , Volume 1, page 301,
    • Strew good luck, ouphes , on every ?acred room, / That it may ?tand 'till the perpetual Doom, / In ?tate as whol?om, as in ?tate 'tis fit; / Worthy the owner, as the owner it.
  • * 1835', , ''The Culprit Fay'', '''1899 , ''The Culprit Fa[y] , 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.