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pixie

[ pik-see ]

noun

, plural pix·ies.
  1. a fairy or sprite, especially a mischievous one.
  2. a small, pert, or mischievous person.


adjective

  1. Also pixie·ish, pixy·ish. playfully impish or mischievous; prankish:

    pixie mood; a pixie sense of humor.

pixie

/ ˈpɪksɪ /

noun

  1. (in folklore) a fairy or elf


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Word History and Origins

Origin of pixie1

First recorded in 1620–30; originally dialect (southwestern England) pixy, pigsy, pisky; origin uncertain

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Word History and Origins

Origin of pixie1

C17: of obscure origin

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Example Sentences

If the devil were to arrive on Earth in human form, he wouldn’t appear as an infant born to an Upper West Side mom with a pixie cut, or even as a scheming, greedy, amoral presidential candidate.

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Later, her life forced into a new shape by tragedy, she emerges as her own woman, a warrior queen with a bleached pixie ’do.

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The same Mia Farrow whose slightness made her a pixie-cut icon in “Rosemary’s Baby,” looking utterly vulnerable to the encroaching forces of evil.

Inspired by one of the flatbreads I tasted that evening, this quick and easy recipe is my way of bringing some of the pixie dust from that meal to my everyday eating.

Its blue cast-member masks “sparkle with pixie dust and Mickey constellations,” according to the DisneyParks post announcing the debut of the design, available in pleated and contoured styles.

Missy, 37, is a petite, bespectacled gal with a green pixie cut, and her arms are adorned with tattoos.

But the pixie cut is heading out the door and it's cousin, the low bob, is the new "it" 'do.

In a Tumblr chat video, Lawrence explained that her new pixie cut was actually the result of a lob gone wrong.

Topanga was a Manic Pixie Dream Girl before we even knew the Manic Pixie Dream Girl was a thing.

Also at the shindig were Jemma and Jodie Kidd, Pixie Lott, Anna, Hamish and the rest.

They thought the Little Brown Man was a wicked pixie who would do them harm.

Soon the three fairies appeared, and one pixie dancing in Frances' aura.

This strange place had once been the home of a Burrow Pixie.

"There is the Pixie squadron crowding on all sail toward the inlet," he said.

The blade of Bigbelief missed the Pixie's head and sank into his shoulder.

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