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pixy

[pik-see] / ˈpɪk si /


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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

The heroine, an aspiring Olympic swimmer, is a jabbering pixy whose notion of Americanism Dr. Carl Mclntire might find a tad overzealous.

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

Can it be possible that it is the prank of a pixy?

From The Girls of Central High on the Stage The Play That Took The Prize by Morrison, Gertrude W.

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

The work is dizzying, requiring you to constantly look down at your feet and then back at the trees, straining to find creatures that feel as mythical as pixies.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 15, 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

He sounded like a whole swarm of mad pixies.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff



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