Pixie vs Fay - What's the difference?
pixie | fay |
(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.
To fit.
To join or unite closely or tightly.
* US Patent Application 20070033853, 2006:
* Model Shipbuilders , 2010:
To lie close together.
To fadge.
A fairy; an elf.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.ii:
White.
* 1946 , Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues , Payback Press 1999, p. 62:
As nouns the difference between pixie and fay
is that pixie is a playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature while fay is a fairy; an elf.As proper nouns the difference between pixie and fay
is that pixie is a female nickname, also used as a formal given name while Fay is {{surname|A=An|English|from=nicknames}}, originally a nickname from "faith, loyalty" or "a fairy".As a verb fay is
to fit.As an adjective fay is
white.pixie
English
(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.
page 72,
- 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.
page 165,
- 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.
page 49,
- 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.
page 186,
- 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.
page 1,
- 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.
page 196,
- 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.
page 138,
- Like magic, Carla transformed from the dainty pixie into a hardcore, no-nonsense businesswoman right before his eyes.
Synonyms
* (sprite or elf-like or fairy-like creature) brownie, fairy, gnome, imp, spriteDerived terms
* pixie boot * pixie cup * pixie cut * pixie dust * (pixie hawkfish) ()fay
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) feyen, feien, from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(en verb)- Under the four outer corners of the horizontal frame platform 22 are four tubular leg sleeves 23 that are fay together one at each outer corner.
- I have a strip cutter and I can cut the exact widths I need to fit, they are easy to fay together and attach very firmly to the bulkheads.
Derived terms
* faying surfaceEtymology 2
From (etyl) fegien, . More at (l), (l), (l).Etymology 3
(etyl) faie, . More at fairy.Noun
(en noun)- that mighty Princesse did complaine / Of grieuous mischiefes, which a wicked Fay / Had wrought [...].
See also
* fey * faeEtymology 4
Abbreviation of (ofay).Adjective
(en adjective)- I really went for Ray's press roll on the drums; he was the first fay boy I ever heard who mastered this vital foundation of jazz music.
