Usually means: Small mythical creature with wings.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word pixie:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. pixie: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pixie: Merriam-Webster
  3. pixie: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pixie: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pixie: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pixie: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pixie, pixie: Wordnik
  8. pixie: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Pixie, pixie: Wiktionary
  10. pixie: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pixie: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pixie: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. pixie: Dictionary.com
  14. pixie: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pixie: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Pixie (CMS), Pixie (Dungeons & Dragons), Pixie (Eternal), Pixie (Morlock), Pixie (X-Men), Pixie (comics), Pixie (disambiguation), Pixie (film), Pixie (folklore), Pixie (renderer), Pixie: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pixie: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pixie: Rhymezone
  19. pixie: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. pixie: FreeDictionary.org
  21. pixie: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. pixie: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pixie (folklore), pixie: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. PIXIE: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PIXIE: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pixie: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

(Note: See pixieish as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (mythology, fantasy literature, fairy tales) A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature.
noun:  (slang) A cute, petite woman with short hair.
noun:  (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.
noun:  A butterfly of the genus Melanis.
noun:  A female nickname, also used as a formal given name.
noun:  (informal, aviation, travel) Air Niugini
noun:  Ellipsis of pixie cut. [A women's hairstyle, generally short on the back and sides of the head and slightly longer on the top.]

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