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pixie-lead

pixie-lead is the alternative spelling of pixy-lead.

Meaning of pixy-lead

Verb

pixy-lead (third-person singular simple present pixy-leads, present participle pixy-leading, simple past and past participle pixy-led)

  1. (usually, fairy) to lead (a traveller) astray or cause them to lose their way by means of enchantment.
    • The office of some is to steal children; ofothers, to lead travellers astray, as Will o’ the Wisps. or to Pixy-lead them, as it is termed.1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 299

Forms of pixie-lead

third-person singular presentpixie-leads
present participlepixie-leading
past participlepixie-led
pastpixie-led

Questions about pixie-lead

What is pixie-lead the alternative spelling of?
Pixie-lead is the alternative spelling of pixy-lead.

Words near pixie-lead in the dictionary

  1. pixie stick
  2. pixie sticks
  3. Pixie-Bob
  4. Pixie-Bobs
  5. pixie-faced
  6. pixie-lead
  7. pixie-leading
  8. pixie-leads
  9. pixie-led
  10. pixie-stool
  11. pixie-stools

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