Pisky
name, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Alternative form of pixie (“supernatural being”). West-Country, alt-of, alternative
"1850, Father Poodles, The Piskies, W. Harrison Ainsworth (editor), The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, Volume 88, Chapman & Hall, page 45, "Get out!" said the fat pisky, giving him a kick with his two-inch leg. "Don't you know, you miserable thin thing that a dumbledorry knocked over the other night, that pisky girls are five times as troublesome as mortal ones? and they are bad enough in all conscience, are they not, Master Page, eh?""
- 1 A village, the administrative centre of Pisky starostynskyi okruh, Ivankiv settlement hromada, Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine.
- 2 A village, the administrative centre of Pisky starostynskyi okruh, Ivankiv settlement hromada, Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine.; A starostynskyi okruh of Ivankiv settlement hromada, Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, established in June 2021.
Example
More examples"1850, Father Poodles, The Piskies, W. Harrison Ainsworth (editor), The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, Volume 88, Chapman & Hall, page 45, "Get out!" said the fat pisky, giving him a kick with his two-inch leg. "Don't you know, you miserable thin thing that a dumbledorry knocked over the other night, that pisky girls are five times as troublesome as mortal ones? and they are bad enough in all conscience, are they not, Master Page, eh?""
Etymology
From Ukrainian Пі́ски (Písky).
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