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Pixy

noun

(pl. pixies)

Creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas. Synonyms: pixie, Pyxidanthera barbulata, pyxie.

(folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous. Synonyms: brownie, elf, gremlin, hob, imp, pixie.

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"Pixy" Quotes from Famous Books

... flared and died and flared again in her eyes; roses of a living flame bloomed and faded and bloomed again in her cheek. Her look went straight to her father's face, clung there in luminous entreaty. Peterkin, more than ever like a stray from some unreal, pixy world, surveyed the scene with his big, wondering, gray-green eyes. Honey-Boy, having apparently just waked, stared, owl-like, his brows pursed in comic reproduction of his father's expression. Junior grinned his widest grin and padded the ...

— Angel Island • Inez Haynes Gillmore

... ugly."[A] In Ireland, in Innisbofin, co. Galway, Professor Haddon relates that the men who were quarrying a rock in the neighbourhood of the harbour refused to work at it any longer, as it was so full of "good people" as to be hot.[B] In England the Pixy-house of Devon is in a stone, and a large stone is also connected with the story of the Frensham caldron, though it is not clear that the fairies lived in the rock itself.[C] Oseberrow or Osebury (vulgo ...

— A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients • Edward Tyson

Words linked to "Pixy" : faery, Pyxidanthera, folklore, sprite, leprechaun, genus Pyxidanthera, sandman, bush, fay, faerie, fairy, shrub