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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

... to see that child, a prey among those vultures, that in my foolish rage and burning I stood up and shouted to them leaping on a rock, and raving out of all possession. Two of them turned round, and one set his carbine at me, but the other said it was but a pixie, and bade him keep his powder. Little they knew, and less thought I, that the pixie then before them would dance their castle ...

— Lorna Doone - A Romance of Exmoor • R. D. Blackmore

... and grinned. She was cute as a pixie, and there were no two ways about that. He wondered for a moment what kind of a wife she'd make. And then shuddered inwardly. Life would be one big contradiction of anything he'd managed to get ...

— Ultima Thule • Dallas McCord Reynolds

... duckling. She's a wicked little leprechaun, born under a mushroom, on a black night, but she swims like a fish, and dances like a pixie. I tell ye she's not human ...

— The Cricket • Marjorie Cooke

... idea predominated at sight of a long parchment scroll covered with characters such as belonged to no alphabet that he had ever dreamt of. What were they doing to his brother? He was absolutely in an enchanter's den. Was it a pixie at the door, guarding it? "Ambrose!" ...

— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte M. Yonge

... with auntie—oh, I do, I do," she said, among her sobs. "Mamma doesn't love me like Colin and Pixie. If she did, she wouldn't go and bring a nasty, horrible little girl to live with us. I hate her, and I shall always hate her—nasty ...

— Rosy • Mrs. Molesworth