- a variation of pixie.
pixy
Americannoun
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pixies
plural
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The wonder runner happens to be a charming pixy.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 2, 2020
They scramble their comic omelet with such pixy princeliness that it becomes a royal banquet of mirth.
From Time Magazine Archive
But this opening night, the perennial pixy was 20 blocks north of his old haunts on the Great White Way, singing with the New York City Opera at Lincoln Center.
From Time Magazine Archive
They scramble their comic omelet with such pixy princeliness that It becomes a royal banquet of mirth.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cicely already danced like a pixy, and laughed merrily at her comrade's first awkward antics, until he flushed with embarrassment.
From Master Skylark by John Bennett
Dominic: It’s a little like when Professor Lockhart released that swarm of Cornish pixies in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”: They’re everywhere and constantly in your face.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
Many of his clients have come seeking dramatically short cuts — shags, pixies and razored bobs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2022
The Moors are a wondrous, lush world bursting with glowing flowers, fairies, ogres, pixies and talking tree giants.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 14, 2020
"It's scarcely worth having a name for. I don't have a name for not believing in pixies."
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2019
The buzz rose to shrieks, and then the room exploded with pixies.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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