pixie

Meaning

Noun

• A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature.
• A cute, petite woman with short hair.
• An upper-atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, a short-lasting pinpoint of light on the surface of convective domes that produces a gnome.

Origin

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