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"word": "pixie dust"
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"taxonomic": "Cirrhitichthys oxycephalus",
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"word": "pixie ring"
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"ref": "2005, Kathryn Reyes, Mystery Door Manor and the Dragon Realm, page 72",
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"ref": "2007, Jeremy Phillips, The Wizardon Star, page 165",
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"ref": "2010, Sandra A. Filbin, The Enchanted World: A Tooth Fairy's Tale, page 49",
"text": "Tiffy froze as the two pixies looked directly into each other's eyes.\nThen 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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"word": "brownie"
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"word": "fair"
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{
"word": "gnome"
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"word": "imp"
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"word": "sprite"
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"publishing",
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"ref": "2006, Darnell Arnoult, Sufficient Grace, page 186",
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{
"ref": "2009, Nicole Baart, The Moment Between, page 1",
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"ref": "2010, Mary Jo Ignoffo, Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune, page 196",
"text": "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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"ref": "2011, L. E. Newell, Durty South Grind, page 138",
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"ref": "2016, Susan Wiggs, Starlight on Willow Lake, page 114",
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"sense": "playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature",
"word": "بِيكْسِي"
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"code": "bg",
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"sense": "playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"sense": "playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature",
"word": "精靈"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "jīnglíng",
"sense": "playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature",
"word": "精灵"
},
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "skřítek"
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "elf"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature",
"word": "keiju"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature",
"word": "lutin"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pixie"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature",
"word": "Kobold"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "xotikó",
"sense": "playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ξωτικό"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "aerikó",
"sense": "playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "αερικό"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "piksī",
"sense": "playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "पिक्सी"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature",
"word": "manó"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature",
"word": "folletto"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "pikushī",
"sense": "playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature",
"word": "ピクシー"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "piksi",
"sense": "playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature",
"word": "픽시"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "píksi",
"sense": "playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "пи́кси"
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"code": "mk",
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"roman": "samóvilče",
"sense": "playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature",
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"neuter"
],
"word": "само́вилче"
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
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"sense": "playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"code": "mr",
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"roman": "piksī",
"sense": "playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "पिक्सी"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature",
"word": "duende"
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "spiriduș"
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"masculine"
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