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pixy-leads

pixy-leads is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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-leads

What is pixy-leads the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Pixy-leads is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pixy-lead.

Words near pixy-leads in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pixy-leads (page history and authors); pixy-lead (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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