pixy
Americannoun
plural
pixiesExample Sentences
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The wonder runner happens to be a charming pixy.
From Washington Times • Aug. 2, 2020
Rex Harrison and Wife Kay Kendall romping through Mayfair, as pixy a pair as ever made pix.
From Time Magazine Archive
They scramble their comic omelet with such pixy princeliness that It becomes a royal banquet of mirth.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the great gladiators overlooked Wisconsin's Democratic Senator William Proxmire, a political pixy who is fond of making dramatic displays of his independence.
From Time Magazine Archive
The pixy came, put on the clothes, and clapping its hands with delight, vanished, saying these lines: Pixy fine, pixy gay, Pixy now will run away.
From Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England by Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard)
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