- a variation of pixie.
pixy
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The wonder runner happens to be a charming pixy.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 2, 2020
On hand for a Moscow film festival, the perennial pixy was soon romping and rolling his way into youngsters' hearts at the Moscow Children's Clinic and a ballet school.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then there was Rose O'Neill, a plumpish pixy who invented the Kewpie doll.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the great gladiators overlooked Wisconsin's Democratic Senator William Proxmire, a political pixy who is fond of making dramatic displays of his independence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Anne lighted a few sticks of driftwood in the fireplace, for love of the pixy flames, and they sat around it for an hour of good fellowship.
From Anne's House of Dreams by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
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
There are bullies, a sly villain, a kidnapping, Irish pixies, a West African protector-spider and classes in Marvellian history, chants and elixirs.
From Washington Post ● May 18, 2022
Jack teams up with a team of elves, fairies, pixies and sprites to infiltrate the bowels of the wicked great tree of life for a final confrontation with the devilish Lord.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 2, 2021
"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 pixies must be going nuts with all that gold.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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