(Folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous.
Creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas.
1The pixy babies must have a cradle until they are grown up.
2Them that know Egdon best have been pixy-led here at times.
3As to the others, what's the difference between a kelpie and a pixy?
4He was vaguely conscious of an unwarranted satisfaction in the nearness of this pixy.
5One is a kelpie, and one is a pixy; that's about all the difference.
6And Loomis Pagan, a pixy in gender studies at Wesleyan.
7I haven't an idea where she came from; she looked like a messenger from pixy-land.
8The pixy gender studies professor from Wesleyan, I recalled.
9The tulips are the pixy babies' cradles, it seems.
10She looked like a messenger from pixy land.
11The pine needles clicked pixy castanets; and the moon beams sifted through the trees a silver dust.
12Mortal eyesight is too slow and clumsy a thing to match against the flicker of a pixy-litten fire.
13There were more pixy babies than usual this spring, and the mothers were in a hurry for the cradles.
14He seemed to have made his appearance suddenly, like a pixy child, and to have vanished back into Fairyland.
16Or maybe it sucked power out of another dimension, or out of magical pixy farts for all he knew.