pixy-led

pixy-led is the simple past and past participle of pixy-lead.

Adjective

pixy-led (not comparable)

Having been led astray by pixies, fairies, or similar supernatural beings.
- The being Pixy-led is a thing very apt to befall worthy yeomen returning at night from fair or market, especially if they sat long at the market-table[.]1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 300
- “Where have you been?” she said. “I’ve a-bin pixy-led,” says he, and then he told her how the pixies had held him fast for five hours, and that at last he crawled away, not knowing where he was going, and tumbling head over heels into the stream.1895, Frederick Thomas Elworthy, The Evil Eye: An Account of this Ancient and Widespread Superstition, London: John Murray, page 434
Bewildered or led astray, as if by pixies.

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

(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

What does pixy-led mean?: Pixy-led means having been led astray by pixies, fairies, or similar supernatural beings.
What is pixy-led the simple past and past participle of?: Pixy-led is the simple past and past participle of pixy-lead.
What part of speech is pixy-led?: Pixy-led is an adjective.

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