Pixie vs Di - What's the difference?
pixie | di |
(mythology, fantasy literature, fairy tales) A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature.
* 2005', Dan Keding, ''The '''Pixies’ Bed'', Dan Keding, Amy Douglas (editors), ''English Folktales ,
* 2005 , Kathryn Reyes, Mystery Door Manor and the Dragon Realm ,
* 2007 , Jeremy Phillips, The Wizardon Star ,
* 2010 , Sandra A. Filbin, The Enchanted World: A Tooth Fairy's Tale ,
(slang) A cute, petite woman with short hair.
* 2006 , Darnell Arnoult, Sufficient Grace ,
* 2009 , Nicole Baart, The Moment Between ,
* 2010 , Mary Jo Ignoffo, Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune ,
* 2011 , L. E. Newell, Durty South Grind ,
(astronomy, meteorology) An upper-atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, a short-lasting pinpoint of light on the surface of convective domes that produces a gnome.
As a verb di is
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(wikipedia pixie)Alternative forms
* pigsie (qualifier) * piskie (qualifier) * pisky (qualifier) * pixyNoun
(en noun)page 98,
- Then she saw pixies' — dozens and dozens of ' pixies — dancing and singing.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Like magic, Carla transformed from the dainty pixie into a hardcore, no-nonsense businesswoman right before his eyes.