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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as pixy.

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Examples

  • A lucky pisky-type charm you could send away for (c/o Joan's Cottage, Lanivet, Bodmin).

    Cardboard Dreams Peter Ashley 2007

  • Then more stars rose up all around him, and, looking, he saw that each was in reality a pisky.

    Legend Land, Vol. 1 Being a collection of some of the Old Tales told in those Western Parts of Britain served by The Great Western Railway. George Basil Barham

  • Though these were but pisky-lights, what bliss if Clem should behold them!

    Shining Ferry Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • One thing, though, Joan had not told them, and that was about her stealing the Fairy Ointment, or they would have known that she had been pisky-led that night, by order of the Fairies, as a punishment, and would one and all have agreed that she richly deserved it.

    Cornwall's Wonderland Mabel Quiller-Couch 1895

  • Master as a brother, close to his heart and thoughts, her coming did at once remove him to a distance from me, so that I looked on the pair as if the dais were part of some other world than this, and they, pledging each other up there and murmuring in foreign tongues and playing with glances, as two creatures moving through a play or pisky tale without care or burden of living, and yet in the end to be pitied.

    Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

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