pixy
Americannoun
plural
pixiesExample Sentences
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The wonder runner happens to be a charming pixy.
From Washington Times • Aug. 2, 2020
Nine years ago Mary Tyler Moore was nothing, or more precisely, she was a two-inch pixy dancing in a Hotpoint stove ad.
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
Madison Avenue's stock formula for a TV commercial is made up of varying parts of humor and pixy dust, with perhaps a base of fact.
From Time Magazine Archive
She looked like a messenger from pixy land.
From Anne of Avonlea by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
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