pixy
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The wonder runner happens to be a charming pixy.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 2, 2020
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
He sprinkles it like contaminated pixy dust over little film fairy tales.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rex Harrison and Wife Kay Kendall romping through Mayfair, as pixy a pair as ever made pix.
From Time Magazine Archive
"And what would the pixy costume have been, if I had chosen that?"
From Patty in Paris by Carolyn Wells
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
I sneezed and the pixies squealed and shot away for a moment but then came back, full of squeaky chatter.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
