pixy
Americannoun
plural
pixiesExample Sentences
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The wonder runner happens to be a charming pixy.
From Washington Times • Aug. 2, 2020
Then there was Rose O'Neill, a plumpish pixy who invented the Kewpie doll.
From Time Magazine Archive
Into a new career�or at least so he hoped�went pixy Pugilist Archie Moore.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nine years ago Mary Tyler Moore was nothing, or more precisely, she was a two-inch pixy dancing in a Hotpoint stove ad.
From Time Magazine Archive
He seemed to have made his appearance suddenly, like a pixy child, and to have vanished back into Fairyland.
From A Patriotic Schoolgirl by Salmon, Balliol
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