pixy

NOUN
  1. creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas
  2. (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous
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How To Use pixy In A Sentence

  • That gap needs a strong dose of incredible shrinking pixy dust in the form of steeply progressive taxes, expanded unionization and a dramatic increase in the minimum wage, which is precisely what happened during our boom years after World War II. Les Leopold: Obama and the Incredible Shrinking Financial Sector
  • To the world outside Abu Ghraib prison, he became an iconic figure, a naked, prostrate Iraqi prisoner crawling on the end of a leash held by Private Lynndie England, the pixyish Army Reserve clerk who posed in several of the infamous photographs that made the name Abu Ghraib synonymous with torture. We Brought Democracy to Iraq...
  • One of the medics is wearing a mysterious blue cape with yellow plastic bananas dangling therefrom; and a yellow floppy pixy hat. THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
  • She had a pixyish sense of humor, and like many teens in the early seventies, she was caught up in a world where the young were protesting what they saw as the sins of adults. Without Pity
  • River was completely different to all his siblings – blonder, cute and pixyish. Rain Phoenix's unusual childhood
  • To his other side and practically leaning up against him was another masked teammate, the pixyish Silver Sylph, whose secret identity allowed her to fade into obscurity soon after The Terror Syndicate called it quits. Masked
  • 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.
  • She was very cute, with an almost pixyish face and a mischievous smile evident even while she slept.
  • River was completely different to all his siblings – blonder, cute and pixyish. Rain Phoenix's unusual childhood
  • I want a gas chamber that sprays pixy sticks instead of poison. Will #17
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