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noun

Pixie, Pixy n. (pl. pixies)

An old English name for a fairy; an elf. (Written also picksy)

(Bot.) A low creeping evergreen plant (Pyxidanthera barbulata), with mosslike leaves and little white blossoms, found in New Jersey and southward, where it flowers in earliest spring.

Pixy ring, a fairy ring or circle. (Prov. Eng.)

Pixy stool (Bot.), a toadstool or mushroom. (Prov. Eng.)

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Etymology of 'Pixy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pixy" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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

... 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