- a variation of pixie.
pixy
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The wonder runner happens to be a charming pixy.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 2, 2020
Then there was Rose O'Neill, a plumpish pixy who invented the Kewpie doll.
From Time Magazine Archive
So vows Rachel Porter, 21, who is slightly plump, wears her blonde hair in a pert pixy cut, and works as a secretary in a Manhattan publishing firm.
From Time Magazine Archive
A bearded pixy, nicely played by Costigan, the writer likes to surround himself with pygmy baptismal fonts, and serve drinks from 16th century eyecups.
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
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
And I'm doing a quick stint on “Maleficent 2” because, well, I'm one of the pixies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2018
Archie began to squirm, and he chirped like a small bird, or was it the pixies chirping?
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
