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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

... 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

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