pixie

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pix=ie

CIDE DICTIONARY

pixie, n. [For Pucksy, from Puck.].

•  An old English name for a fairy; an elf.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

pixie, n. (also pixy) (pl. -ies) a being like a fairy; an elf.

Idiom

pixie hat (or hood) a child's hat with a pointed crown.

Etymology

17th c.: orig. unkn.

THESAURUS

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