pixy
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The wonder runner happens to be a charming pixy.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 2, 2020
Think! is a lusty, swinging tune; Doodletown Fifers mixes pixy tootlings with brassy blasts.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then there was Rose O'Neill, a plumpish pixy who invented the Kewpie doll.
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
She was in a pixy mood, and did not mean to show any special haste in beginning her unwelcome work.
From A Patriotic Schoolgirl by Balliol Salmon
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
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 fire doesn’t crack and even the pixies are still.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
