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pixy-led
pixy-led, a. Led astray by pixies; lost; bewildered, confused. So pixy-leading.1659 C. Clobery [Cornishman] Div. Glimpses 73 Blind-zeal-sick soul! in Charity i'll judge Thee pixie-led in Popish piety. Ibid., Old countrey folk, who pixie-leading fear, Bear bread about them to prevent that harm. 1836 ...
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Pixie
They are not completely benign, however, as they have a reputation for misleading travellers known as being "pixy-led", and it can be cured by turning
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pixilated
pixilated, a. orig. U.S. dial. (ˈpɪksɪˌleɪtɪd) Also pixelated, pixielated, pixillated, pixylated. [f. pixie + -lated as in elated, emulated, etc. or var. pixy-led a.] 1. Mildly insane, fey, whimsical; bewildered, confused; intoxicated, tipsy.1848 in Amer. Speech (1941) XVI. 79/2 You'll never find on...
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pixie
pixie (ˈpɪksɪ) Also pixy, and dial. pisky, -ie, pisgy, etc.: see Eng. Dial. Dict. [Origin obscure.] a. In local folk-lore a name for a supposed supernatural being akin to a fairy. Also transf. (In popular use in the s.w. of England from Cornwall to Wiltshire and Dorset. A meadow on the Thames above ...
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Getting lost
In the mythology of the British Isles, the culprit making someone get lost—being pixy-led, fairy-led or pouk-ledden as it is called—can be a fairy, Robin
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puck
▪ I. puck, pook, n.1 (pʌk, pʊk) Forms: α. 1 p{uacu}ca, 3–4 (9 Sc.) puke, 4–7 pouke, 5 powke, 6 pooke, 9 pook, pouk. β. 6–7 pucke, 7– puck. γ. 9 dial. poake. [OE. p{uacu}ca = ON. p{uacu}ki a mischievous demon. Cf. W. pwca, pwci, Ir. p{uacu}ca (pooka). Cf. poker n.2, pug n.2 The ulterior history of th...
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ledare
▪ I. led, ppl. a. (lɛd) [Pa. pple. of lead v.1] 1. In various nonce-uses (see the vb.).1570 Levins Manip. 48/38 Ledde, ductus. a 1586 Sidney Arcadia iv. (1629) 425, I would suffer this fault..to be blotted out of my minde, by your former led life. 1754 Richardson Grandison III. xxii. 203 Is not in h...
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