pixie — अंग्रेज़ी शब्दकोश

संज्ञा

1. A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature.

   समानार्थी शब्द

   browniefairgnomeimpsprite

   उदाहरण

   अधिक उदाहरण (1)

   The writer in the Quarterly Review, vol xxii., gives a long list of words which he regards as connected with Puck: the editor of Warton adds German Spuk and Danish Spoge and Spogelse: we will contribute the Scottish Pauky, and the Devonshire Pixies, or Fairies.

   Then she saw pixies — dozens and dozens of pixies — dancing and singing.

   अधिक उदाहरण (3)

   When she looked around, Mary saw four pixies flying toward her. She had to jump out of the way to avoid being hit. Then the pixies turned around and attacked again.

   The servant that had raised him, an elderly pixie called Rolog, had died. On his deathbed he had called the young Captain to his side. Seeing the pixie dying had had no effect on him.

   Tiffy froze as the two pixies looked directly into each other's eyes. Then Tiffy raised her hand and said, “Hi, I'm Tiffy the Tooth Fairy.” Even though the other pixie lifted her hand too, she didn't answer.

2. A cute, petite woman with short hair.

   प्रयोग

   • स्लैंग

   उदाहरण

   अधिक उदाहरण (3)

   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.

   Petite and narrow-waisted, with a pixie flip of hair the exact color of coffee beans, Abigail could easily pass for sixteen in a pair of ripped jeans and an Abercrombie T-shirt.

   Petite in the extreme, not even reaching five feet tall, Winchester at her most robust had approached one hundred pounds. No longer the bright-eyed, sophisticated pixie that Isaiah Taber had photographed so many years earlier, Winchester showed a different picture altogether as she lay dying, her fingers and toes knotted and knurled from years of destruction by the painful arthritis.

   Like magic, Carla transformed from the dainty pixie into a hardcore, no-nonsense businesswoman right before his eyes.

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.

संज्ञा

1. (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous

   समानार्थी शब्द

   elfhobgremlinpixybrownieimp

   व्यापक अर्थ वाले शब्द

   fairyfaeryfaeriefaysprite

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

   समानार्थी शब्द

   pyxiepixyPyxidanthera barbulata

   व्यापक अर्थ वाले शब्द

   shrubbush