nixie

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I think of the river and how, when one nixie detached from the others, Cardan waited until it paused and then left so we could get out of the water.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

The male is called nix, the female nixie, the generic term for both being nicker, from a root which perhaps means ‘to wash.’

From Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine by Spence, Lewis

She has a kind of nixie, tantalising, bewitching charm that would drive a crowd mad.

From A Singer from the Sea by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

The teasing motive of the nixie returns while the trumpet sounds a shadowy echo of its phrase, again to dying peal of bells.

From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Goepp, Philip H.

"Here I am, papa!" cried a clear girlish voice, "wet as a nixie; we were up on the Wolkenstein all through the storm; just see how we look, Griff and I!"

From The Alpine Fay A Romance by Elisabeth Buerstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)