Definition of "ouphe"
ouphe
noun
plural ouphes
(obsolete) A small, often mischievous sprite; a fairy; a goblin; an elf.
Quotations
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.
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[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene iv]
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.
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