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noun

Pixie, Pixy n. (pl. pixies)

An old English name for a fairy; an elf. (Written also picksy)

(Bot.) A low creeping evergreen plant (Pyxidanthera barbulata), with mosslike leaves and little white blossoms, found in New Jersey and southward, where it flowers in earliest spring.

Pixy ring, a fairy ring or circle. (Prov. Eng.)

Pixy stool (Bot.), a toadstool or mushroom. (Prov. Eng.)

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Etymology of 'Pixie'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pixie" Quotes from Famous Books

... was all that she had perilously dared to hope he would be at this crisis. He soothed her and healed her by his loyalty; promised, without her extorting it, that he would never tell a soul what she had just told him; pixie-shy, yet he spoke of his personal need of her—and more than anything else she had desired to hear this. He mentioned some trivial intimate plans for their unbroken, unchanged future together, so as to reassure her of its continuance. He even made ...

— The Best British Short Stories of 1922 • Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos, editors

... the neatly gathered mass shining with its own lustre and delicate graduation of colour. In perfect harmony were her ivory-clear complexion and deep sea-blue eyes that looked upon the world with the ingenuous calmness of a mermaid or the pixie of an undiscovered mountain stream. Her frame was strong and yet possessed the grace of absolute naturalness. And yet with all her Northern clearness and frankness of line and colouring, there seemed to ...

— Whirligigs • O. Henry

... she was most wonderful just before the birth of her first child, a little changeling creature, wild-eyed as her fairy mother. How she made believe with the little fairy vestments, the elfin-shirts, the pixy-frocks—long before it was time for the tiny body to step inside them! how she talked to the unborn soul that none but she as yet could see! And all the time she 'knew' she was going to die, that she would never see the little ...

— Prose Fancies • Richard Le Gallienne

... of a brilliant blue flared and died and flared again in her eyes; roses of a living flame bloomed and faded and bloomed again in her cheek. Her look went straight to her father's face, clung there in luminous entreaty. Peterkin, more than ever like a stray from some unreal, pixy world, surveyed the scene with his big, wondering, gray-green eyes. Honey-Boy, having apparently just waked, stared, owl-like, his brows pursed in comic reproduction of his father's expression. Junior grinned his widest grin and padded the air unceasingly with his pudgy hands. ...

— Angel Island • Inez Haynes Gillmore

Words linked to "Pixie" : elf, faerie, shrub, hob, brownie, sprite, faery, fairy, bush, genus Pyxidanthera, imp, Pyxidanthera barbulata, gremlin, Pyxidanthera, pixy, folklore, sandman, fay, leprechaun