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Significados de pixy em inglês

português
silfo
catalão
gnom
espanhol
gremlin

(Folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous.

      silfo

      Creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas.

            Uso de pixy em inglês
            1
            The pixy babies must have a cradle until they are grown up.
            The Golden Road
            2
            Them that know Egdon best have been pixy-led here at times.
            The Return of the Native
            3
            As to the others, what's the difference between a kelpie and a pixy?
            Patty in Paris
            4
            He was vaguely conscious of an unwarranted satisfaction in the nearness of this pixy.
            Other People's Business: The Romantic Career of the Practical Mi...
            5
            One is a kelpie, and one is a pixy; that's about all the difference.
            Patty in Paris
            6
            And Loomis Pagan, a pixy in gender studies at Wesleyan.
            The Water Witch
            7
            I haven't an idea where she came from; she looked like a messenger from pixy-land.
            Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903
            8
            The pixy gender studies professor from Wesleyan, I recalled.
            The Water Witch
            9
            The tulips are the pixy babies' cradles, it seems.
            The Golden Road
            10
            She looked like a messenger from pixy land.
            Anne of Avonlea
            11
            The pine needles clicked pixy castanets; and the moon beams sifted through the trees a silver dust.
            The Freebooters of the Wilderness
            12
            Mortal eyesight is too slow and clumsy a thing to match against the flicker of a pixy-litten fire.
            The Golden Road
            13
            There were more pixy babies than usual this spring, and the mothers were in a hurry for the cradles.
            The Golden Road
            14
            He seemed to have made his appearance suddenly, like a pixy child, and to have vanished back into Fairyland.
            A Patriotic Schoolgirl
            15
            She shook her pixy head.
            Neverwhere
            16
            Or maybe it sucked power out of another dimension, or out of magical pixy farts for all he knew.
            Stars rain down
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            Translations for pixy
            português
            silfoelfoduende
            espanhol
            gremlin
            Pixy ao longo do tempo