- a variation of pixie.
pixy
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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
She has a neat little nose, powder-blue eyes, and a pixy grin.
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
The pine needles clicked pixy castanets; and the moon beams sifted through the trees a silver dust.
From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
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
There are bullies, a sly villain, a kidnapping, Irish pixies, a West African protector-spider and classes in Marvellian history, chants and elixirs.
From Washington Post ● May 18, 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 problem with open windows was the pixies.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
