pixy
Americannoun
plural
pixiesExample Sentences
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The wonder runner happens to be a charming pixy.
From Washington Times • Aug. 2, 2020
In conversation Barth is full of wisecracks�some pleasantly pixy, some theologian-arch.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
It seems that evil pixies changed children, and that the pixy at the Men-an-Tol being good, could, in opposition, undo their work.’
From The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by Wentz, W. Y. Evans
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