pixies

Noun

pixie (plural pixies)

1. (fairy tales) A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature.
   • The writer in the Quarterly Review, vol xxii., gives a long list of words which he regards as connected with Puck: the editor of Warton adds German Spuk and Danish Spoge and Spogelse: we will contribute the Scottish Pauky, and the Devonshire Pixies, or Fairies.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 119

   Synonyms:

   brownie, fair, gnome, imp, sprite

2. (slang) A cute, petite woman with short hair.
   • 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.2006, Darnell Arnoult, Sufficient Grace, page 186
3. An upper-atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, a short-lasting pinpoint of light on the surface of convective domes that produces a gnome.
4. A butterfly of the genus Melanis.

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