- 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
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
He was vaguely conscious of an unwarranted satisfaction in the nearness of this pixy.
From Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale by Harriet L. Smith
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
Jack teams up with a team of elves, fairies, pixies and sprites to infiltrate the bowels of the wicked great tree of life for a final confrontation with the devilish Lord.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 2, 2021
"It's scarcely worth having a name for. I don't have a name for not believing in pixies."
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2019
Tears ran down my cheeks and the pixies swarmed on my face.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
