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Definition of pixie in English: pixienounPlural pixies ˈpɪksiˈpɪksi 1A supernatural being in folklore and children's stories, typically portrayed as small and humanlike in form, with pointed ears and a pointed hat. （民间传说或童话故事中长尖耳戴尖帽的人形）小精灵 Example sentencesExamples - My husband's skill at cooking is nearly enough to have me forgive him for years of thinking that pixies washed his socks and elves cleaned the toilet.
- After all, where were the magic pixies sprinkling marzipan holly berries over pre-Colonial scenes of people broasting chestnuts?
- I see myself in one sense as a zoo of conflicting desires each trying to clamour for my attention like a class of noisy children or a swarm of irritating pixies - you have to decide who to listen to and who to ignore.
- A mate of mine, who is known as the Halloween Man, invites friends in to see his pixies (he has 15, don't ask me where from) and gives them pumpkin pie.
- For a start, it is in a little house in the woodland beside the hotel, leading me to suspect that the staff would be elves and pixies.
- The vocals are shared alternately between the two singers; both sound like fragile pixies, trapped in a lyrical world of jealous lovers and murderous intent.
- In folklore, pixies play cheeky tricks on humans; they are annoying perhaps, but ultimately harmless.
- Not only is there the day to day running of your farm, but there's a bizarre subplot involving pixies who give you magic farming tools in return for giant mushrooms and such.
- Instead of the crass commercialism shoveled at us come Christmastime, we get to dress up as brain-eating ghouls and sexy pixies.
- ‘I believe they are real pixies, and if I what I believe is true, this is not good,’ he said.
- It's very clever for a story that's set in a parallel dimension inhabited by elves, pixies, unicorns and griffins!
- Passengers join Santa and all his pixies and elves for a one hour steam train journey through Bronte Country.
- They speak of pixies and fairies of indescribable beauty, who ensnare the heart of innocent lads.
- I did however go for quite a long riverside walk through areas of woodland where on a sunny day like this you could almost believe there'd be fairies and pixies scampering about playfully.
- The nature of sprites and pixies was a very innocent one, more attune to that of children than creatures of magic.
- Shrek has over thirty fully-rendered characters as well as various fairies, pixies, gnomes, and dwarfs which appear mostly all in one scene.
- I'm a lot more interested in the time tree model where we are just a single growing and evolving organism, with no dependency on aliens or magic pixies turning up further down the line with sweets if we do well for ourselves.
- Kids simply have to dress up as a fairy or a pixie and two winners will be picked after the show.
- Circulus, their debut album's weirdly suggestive title aside, are the kind of band who will sing about transferring actual power to actual pixies.
- These people are living in a fantasy world, with fairies and pixies.
Synonyms elf, fairy, sprite, imp, brownie, puck, leprechaun, hobgoblin, peri literary faerie, fay rare nix, nixie, elfin, hob 2 do you think she should grow out her hair or keep her pixie? short for pixie cut Example sentencesExamples - New York stylist Carrington gets playful with this point-cut pixie.
- The stylist created this layered pixie using a technique called round graduation, in which the cut is fuller in the middle and shorter at the hairline and sides.
- Although she appears to have a messy chopped pixie, her hair is actually very carefully cut and precisely sculpted.
- I planned on chopping off my just-past-shoulder-length hair to a pixie.
- Nancy was born in Ohio, one of six children, four of them girls, and with her pixie hair was often mistaken for a boy.
- Short, sideswept bangs look amazing with a pixie.
Derivativesadjective She is now more pixieish than kittenish, which is part of what makes her so annoying. Example sentencesExamples - We first fell in love with her pixieish charm when she was one half of the pop-rock duo the Murmurs, West Coast favorites with three albums to their credit.
- Her slight frame and elfin appearance suggested a coy, pixieish quality but her work revealed wit and tough-minded resourcefulness.
- She was very cute, with an almost pixyish face and a mischievous smile evident even while she slept.
- Short and stocky, a shopworn wool sweater carelessly worn backwards on occasion, Bob displayed an almost pixyish quality that was only enhanced by his lilting, Gaelic turn of phrase and charming absent-mindedness.
OriginMid 17th century: of unknown origin. Definition of pixie in US English: pixie(also pixy) nounˈpɪksiˈpiksē 1A supernatural being in folklore and children's stories, typically portrayed as small and humanlike in form, with pointed ears and a pointed hat. （民间传说或童话故事中长尖耳戴尖帽的人形）小精灵 Example sentencesExamples - Shrek has over thirty fully-rendered characters as well as various fairies, pixies, gnomes, and dwarfs which appear mostly all in one scene.
- For a start, it is in a little house in the woodland beside the hotel, leading me to suspect that the staff would be elves and pixies.
- Instead of the crass commercialism shoveled at us come Christmastime, we get to dress up as brain-eating ghouls and sexy pixies.
- Circulus, their debut album's weirdly suggestive title aside, are the kind of band who will sing about transferring actual power to actual pixies.
- The vocals are shared alternately between the two singers; both sound like fragile pixies, trapped in a lyrical world of jealous lovers and murderous intent.
- Not only is there the day to day running of your farm, but there's a bizarre subplot involving pixies who give you magic farming tools in return for giant mushrooms and such.
- My husband's skill at cooking is nearly enough to have me forgive him for years of thinking that pixies washed his socks and elves cleaned the toilet.
- Kids simply have to dress up as a fairy or a pixie and two winners will be picked after the show.
- They speak of pixies and fairies of indescribable beauty, who ensnare the heart of innocent lads.
- In folklore, pixies play cheeky tricks on humans; they are annoying perhaps, but ultimately harmless.
- I see myself in one sense as a zoo of conflicting desires each trying to clamour for my attention like a class of noisy children or a swarm of irritating pixies - you have to decide who to listen to and who to ignore.
- ‘I believe they are real pixies, and if I what I believe is true, this is not good,’ he said.
- It's very clever for a story that's set in a parallel dimension inhabited by elves, pixies, unicorns and griffins!
- I'm a lot more interested in the time tree model where we are just a single growing and evolving organism, with no dependency on aliens or magic pixies turning up further down the line with sweets if we do well for ourselves.
- These people are living in a fantasy world, with fairies and pixies.
- I did however go for quite a long riverside walk through areas of woodland where on a sunny day like this you could almost believe there'd be fairies and pixies scampering about playfully.
- After all, where were the magic pixies sprinkling marzipan holly berries over pre-Colonial scenes of people broasting chestnuts?
- Passengers join Santa and all his pixies and elves for a one hour steam train journey through Bronte Country.
- The nature of sprites and pixies was a very innocent one, more attune to that of children than creatures of magic.
- A mate of mine, who is known as the Halloween Man, invites friends in to see his pixies (he has 15, don't ask me where from) and gives them pumpkin pie.
Synonyms elf, fairy, sprite, imp, brownie, puck, leprechaun, hobgoblin, peri 2 do you think she should grow out her hair or keep her pixie? short for pixie cut Example sentencesExamples - Nancy was born in Ohio, one of six children, four of them girls, and with her pixie hair was often mistaken for a boy.
- Short, sideswept bangs look amazing with a pixie.
- Although she appears to have a messy chopped pixie, her hair is actually very carefully cut and precisely sculpted.
- The stylist created this layered pixie using a technique called round graduation, in which the cut is fuller in the middle and shorter at the hairline and sides.
- New York stylist Carrington gets playful with this point-cut pixie.
- I planned on chopping off my just-past-shoulder-length hair to a pixie.
OriginMid 17th century: of unknown origin. |