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Pixie

//ˈpɪksi// name, noun, slang

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A female nickname, also used as a formal given name.
  2. 2
    Air Niugini informal
Noun
  1. 1
    A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature.

    "Then she saw pixies — dozens and dozens of pixies — dancing and singing."

  2. 2
    (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous wordnet
  3. 3
    A cute, petite woman with short hair. slang

    "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."

  4. 4
    creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas wordnet
  5. 5
    An upper-atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, a short-lasting pinpoint of light on the surface of convective domes that produces a gnome.
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  1. 6
    A butterfly of the genus Melanis.
  2. 7
    Ellipsis of pixie cut. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

    "“Have you thought about a haircut? A pixie or a bob?”"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Uncertain; 17thC, originally in the folklore of southwest England; perhaps diminutive of Swedish pysk (“fairy”); perhaps Puck + -sy; see Wikipedia.

Etymology 2

From pixie.

Etymology 3

From its IATA code of PX.

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