pixie

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈpɪksi/    美 /ˈpɪksi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature.
    — Then she saw pixies — dozens and dozens of pixies — dancing and singing.
  2. A cute, petite woman with short hair. slang
    — Then a pixie appears in the visitor window, round face, big brown eyes framed in thick liner, a tiny turned-up nose, red lips, inch-long blue-black hair so popular with the avant-garde.
  3. An upper-atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, a short-lasting pinpoint of light on the surface of convective domes that produces a gnome.
  4. A butterfly of the genus Melanis.
  5. Ellipsis of pixie cut. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
    — “Have you thought about a haircut? A pixie or a bob?”

词形变化

pixies plural pigsie alternative piskie alternative pisky alternative pixy alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
bixie manic pixie dream girl pixie boot pixie cup pixie cut pixie dust pixie-faced pixie hawkfish pixieing pixieish pixie-led pixielike pixie moss pixieness pixie ring pixie stick pixie-stool pixilated pixillated pixilation pixiness

词源

Uncertain; 17thC, originally in the folklore of southwest England; perhaps diminutive of Swedish pysk (“fairy”); perhaps Puck + -sy; see Wikipedia.
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