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Pixie   /pˈɪksi/   Listen
Pixie

noun
(pl. pixies)
1.
(folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous.  Synonyms: brownie, elf, gremlin, hob, imp, pixy.
2.
Creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas.  Synonyms: pixy, Pyxidanthera barbulata, pyxie.






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"Pixie" Quotes from Famous Books



... on her lips, for her eyes were abstracted. My legs were still feeble, and I had leaned a little on her strong young arm as we came up the hill, but now she left me and climbed on a rock, where she sat like a pixie. The hardships of the past had thinned her face and deepened her eyes, but her grace was the more manifest. Fresh and dewy as morning, yet with a soul of steel and fire—surely no lovelier nymph ever graced a woodland. I felt how rough and common ...
— Salute to Adventurers • John Buchan

... those things," she announced, calmly, crossing her dainty feet and gazing guilelessly at him. "I'm a witch, a Brownie, a sprite, an elf, a kobold, a pixie——" ...
— The Come Back • Carolyn Wells

... soon became a craze; And, when it once began, she Brought us all out in different ways - One was a Pixy, two were Fays, ...
— Phantasmagoria and Other Poems • Lewis Carroll



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