pixie

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous
noun creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas

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

Probably they are "pixie led," for Devonshire simply swarms with pixies. — Set in Silver, C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson
It made me feel that she was really mine, and not a pixie that would vanish at a word. — Mr. Standfast, John Buchan
Little they knew, and less thought I, that the pixie then before them would dance their castle down one day. — Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor, R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

elf, hob, gremlin, pixy, brownie, imp

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