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pixy-leading

pixy-leading is the present participle and gerund 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

Questions about pixy-leading

What is pixy-leading the present participle and gerund of?
Pixy-leading is the present participle and gerund of pixy-lead.

Words near pixy-leading in the dictionary

  1. Pixtons
  2. pixy
  3. pixy ring
  4. pixy rings
  5. pixy-lead
  6. pixy-leading
  7. pixy-leads
  8. pixy-led
  9. pixy-stool
  10. pixy-stools
  11. pixyish

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