pixie.
A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature.
Meaning & usage
A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature.
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.
Ellipsis of pixie cut.
Where this word comes from
Uncertain; 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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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.