pixie
A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creatureA playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature.
» Have the pixies done the washing up yet?
Haben die Heinzelmännchen schon den Abwasch erledigt?
Meaning
4 sensesA playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature.
Kobold
пи́ксиpíksi, фе́яféja, эльфelʹf
(slang)A cute, petite woman with short hair.
An upper-atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, a short-lasting pinpoint of light on the surface of convective domes that produces a gnome.
A butterfly of the genus Melanis.
- creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas
- (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous
Examples
2 sentencesHave the pixies done the washing up yet?
deHaben die Heinzelmännchen schon den Abwasch erledigt? — raggione
Manicures, scorpions, planets, raw oysters, wrestlers and pixies are just a few of the available emoji.
Translations
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Origin
Uncertain; 17thC, originally in the folklore of southwest England; perhaps diminutive of dUncertain; 17thC, originally in the folklore of southwest England; perhaps diminutive of dialectal Swedish pysk (“fairy”), though the transmission of a Swedish dialect term to southwest Britain is unexplained; perhaps Puck (“Robin Goodfellow”) + -sy; see Wikipedia.
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