Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Behaving as if mentally unbalanced; very eccentric.
- adjective Whimsical; prankish.
- adjective Slang Intoxicated; drunk.
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- adjective
behaving in aneccentric manner, as though led bypixies . - adjective
whimsical - adjective
drunk
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective naughtily or annoyingly playful
- adjective very drunk
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In 6th grade, I got second place in the Riverside County Spelling Bee the word I misspelled was "pixilated", and went on to the state bee in Santa Rosa.
Archive 2007-05-01 tanita davis 2007
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In 6th grade, I got second place in the Riverside County Spelling Bee the word I misspelled was "pixilated", and went on to the state bee in Santa Rosa.
The WritingYA Weblog: Tag--I'm It! a. fortis 2007
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The rear of the car in fact has a disembodied or "pixilated" look, representing a tail-of-the-comet metaphor, as if the sheer speed of the vehicle is pulling the underlying, technical "Frame" rearward, away from the sensuous, flowing
Top Speed Simona Alina 2010
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The rear of the car in fact has a disembodied or "pixilated" look, representing a tail-of-the-comet metaphor, as if the sheer speed of the vehicle is pulling the underlying, technical "Frame" rearward, away from the sensuous, flowing "Skin" above.
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"pixilated" stained-glass window installed by Gerhard Richter in 2007.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009
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"pixilated" stained-glass window installed by Gerhard Richter in 2007.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009
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Though his genital attributes were much discussed and nonchalant nudity liberally on display — pixilated on camera, naturally — the new guy is hardly just another sorry Charlie.
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No one could determine, because the video had been taken by a cell phone that produced a highly pixilated image, what Richardson actually held.
Conceived in the New Liberty Savannah Schroll Guz 2011
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Sitting across from Assange, who was wearing a light-colored, open-necked shirt and his usual brown blazer, Colbert goofed around for a minute, his own face pixilated and voice modified to protect against a drone attack.
Greg Mitchell: One Year Ago Tonight: Stephen Colbert vs. Julian Assange Greg Mitchell 2011
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Christie's Images Limited 'Ohhh … Alright' The 1964 painting, "Ohhh … Alright …," depicts a pixilated redheaded woman clutching a telephone.
Pop Goes the Art Market: A $40 Million Lichtenstein? Kelly Crow 2010
arby commented on the word pixilated
1. Behaving as if mentally unbalanced; very eccentric. 2. Whimsical; prankish. 3. Slang Intoxicated; drunk.
ETYMOLOGY: From pixie.
OTHER FORMS: pixi·lation —NOUN
May 15, 2007
arby commented on the word pixilated
1. Stupefied, excited, or muddled with alcoholic liquor: besotted, crapulent, crapulous, drunk, drunken, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, sodden, tipsy. Informal: cockeyed, stewed. Slang: blind, bombed, boozed, boozy, crocked, high, lit up, loaded, looped, pickled, plastered, potted, sloshed, smashed, soused, stinking, stinko, stoned, tight, zonked. Idioms: drunk as a skunk, half-seas over, high as a kite, in one's cups, three sheets to the wind.
May 15, 2007