- a variation of pixie.
pixy
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The wonder runner happens to be a charming pixy.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 2, 2020
A pixy TV program called Masquerade Party has achieved a clown's gallery of Senators, e.g.,
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They scramble their comic omelet with such pixy princeliness that it becomes a royal banquet of mirth.
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He sprinkles it like contaminated pixy dust over little film fairy tales.
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Back came the echoes, as if a host of pixy people were mimicking her laughter in the purple woodlands and along the fir-fringed points.
From Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
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
A few unfortunate servants were tossing fat gold coins into the street, warding off the pixies as best they could.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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