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pixie
English
Etymology
Uncertain; see Wikipedia.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /?p?ksi/
- Rhymes: -?ksi
- Hyphenation: pix?ie
Noun
pixie (plural pixies)
- (mythology, fantasy literature, fairy tales) A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature.
- Synonyms: brownie, fair, gnome, imp, sprite
- 2005, Dan Keding, The Pixies’ Bed, Dan Keding, Amy Douglas (editors), English Folktales, page 98,
- Then she saw pixies — dozens and dozens of pixies — dancing and singing.
- 2005, Kathryn Reyes, Mystery Door Manor and the Dragon Realm, page 72,
- When she looked around, Mary saw four pixies flying toward her. She had to jump out of the way to avoid being hit. Then the pixies turned around and attacked again.
- 2007, Jeremy Phillips, The Wizardon Star, page 165,
- The servant that had raised him, an elderly pixie called Rolog, had died. On his deathbed he had called the young Captain to his side. Seeing the pixie dying had had no effect on him.
- 2010, Sandra A. Filbin, The Enchanted World: A Tooth Fairy's Tale, page 49,
- Tiffy froze as the two pixies looked directly into each other's eyes.
- Then Tiffy raised her hand and said, “Hi, I'm Tiffy the Tooth Fairy.” Even though the other pixie lifted her hand too, she didn't answer.
- (slang) A cute, petite woman with short hair.
- 2006, Darnell Arnoult, Sufficient Grace, page 186,
- Then a pixie appears in the visitor window, round face, big brown eyes framed in thick liner, a tiny turned-up nose, red lips, inch-long blue-black hair so popular with the avant-garde.
- 2009, Nicole Baart, The Moment Between, page 1,
- Petite and narrow-waisted, with a pixie flip of hair the exact color of coffee beans, Abigail could easily pass for sixteen in a pair of ripped jeans and an Abercrombie T-shirt.
- 2010, Mary Jo Ignoffo, Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune, page 196,
- Petite in the extreme, not even reaching five feet tall, Winchester at her most robust had approached one hundred pounds. No longer the bright-eyed, sophisticated pixie that Isaiah Taber had photographed so many years earlier, Winchester showed a different picture altogether as she lay dying, her fingers and toes knotted and knurled from years of destruction by the painful arthritis.
- 2011, L. E. Newell, Durty South Grind, page 138,
- Like magic, Carla transformed from the dainty pixie into a hardcore, no-nonsense businesswoman right before his eyes.
- 2006, Darnell Arnoult, Sufficient Grace, page 186,
- (astronomy, meteorology) An upper-atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, a short-lasting pinpoint of light on the surface of convective domes that produces a gnome.
Alternative forms
- pigsie (obsolete, Celtic mythology)
- piskie
- pisky
- pixy
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- pixie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Dongxiang
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?i??i??/, [p?i???i??]
Etymology
From Proto-Mongolic *büse. Compare Mongolian ??? (büs)
Alternative forms
- pijie
Noun
pixie
- belt
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faerie
English
Alternative forms
- færie (archaic, nonstandard)
Etymology
From Old French faerie; re-introduced into English in deliberately archaising spelling in 1590 by Edmund Spenser in authoring the Faerie Queene.
Noun
faerie (countable and uncountable, plural faeries)
- Archaic spelling of fairy.
- Realm of the fays, fairyland.
References
- Faerie, in Compact Oxford English Dictionary.
Anagrams
- feriae
Old French
Alternative forms
- faierie
Etymology
fae +? -erie
Noun
faerie f
- the sphere or realm of enchantment, magic or dream associated with the fae (fays)
Derived terms
- French: féerie
- ? English: féerie
- ? Middle English: fairye
- English: fairy, fairie, faerie, faery
- Scots: fairy, faerie, faery
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