- a variation of pixie.
pixy
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The wonder runner happens to be a charming pixy.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 2, 2020
Rex Harrison and Wife Kay Kendall romping through Mayfair, as pixy a pair as ever made pix.
From Time Magazine Archive
The heroine, an aspiring Olympic swimmer, is a jabbering pixy whose notion of Americanism Dr. Carl Mclntire might find a tad overzealous.
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
He seemed to have made his appearance suddenly, like a pixy child, and to have vanished back into Fairyland.
From A Patriotic Schoolgirl by Balliol Salmon
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 the 10-episode first season does spoof Disney, from “Lady and the Tramp” to street-wise Peter Pan-esque fairies — more swaggering TinkerBallers than Tinkerbell — who soar like gritty pixies over the castle of Dreamland.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 16, 2018
He sounded like a whole swarm of mad pixies.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
