Pixie

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pixy \Pix"y\, Pixie \Pix"ie\, n.; pl. {Pixies}. [For Pucksy,
     from Puck.]
     1. An old English name for a fairy; an elf. [Written also
        {picksy}.]
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     2. (Bot.) A low creeping evergreen plant ({Pyxidanthera
        barbulata}), with mosslike leaves and little white
        blossoms, found in New Jersey and southward, where it
        flowers in earliest spring.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     {Pixy ring}, a fairy ring or circle. [Prov. Eng.]
  
     {Pixy stool} (Bot.), a toadstool or mushroom. [Prov. Eng.]
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pixie
       n 1: (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous [syn: {elf},
             {hob}, {gremlin}, {pixy}, {brownie}, {imp}]
       2: creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves
          and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens
          of New Jersey and the Carolinas [syn: {pyxie}, {pixy}, {Pyxidanthera
          barbulata}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  86 Moby Thesaurus words for "pixie":
     Ariel, Befind, Corrigan, Dingbelle, Fifinella, Finnbeara, Hob,
     Hobgoblin, Mab, Oberon, Puck, Titania, antic, bad boy, bad fairy,
     bad peri, banshee, booger, brownie, buffoon, bugger, cluricaune,
     coltish, cutup, devil, deviling, devilkin, diablotin, dwarf, elf,
     elvish, enfant terrible, erlking, fairy, fairy queen, fay,
     funmaker, gamesome, gnome, goblin, gremlin, hob, hood, hoodlum,
     hooligan, imp, impish, joker, jokester, knave, kobold, leprechaun,
     little devil, little monkey, little rascal, minx, mischief,
     mischief-maker, ouphe, peri, pixieish, pixilated, poltergeist,
     pooka, practical joker, prankish, prankster, puca, puck, puckish,
     pwca, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, rowdy, ruffian, scalawag, scamp,
     scapegrace, slyboots, sprite, sylph, sylphid, tokoloshe, wag,
     young devil